Pete du Pont Quotes
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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Most businesses -- like most of anything else in life -- fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. When you compare great companies with good ones, many widely practiced business norms turn out to correlate with mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into the social sectors?
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In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.
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I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
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If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
