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?
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
-
If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
-
A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
-
I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
-
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.
-
I will not get very far with this attitude.
-
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
-
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.
-
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
-
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
-
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.
-
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
-
I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
-
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.
-
One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
-
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.
-
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
-
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.
-
It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a small percentage of my head. I don't mind talking about it, but I always worry that it's gonna seem to the outside world that that's all I think about.
-
There is nothing like watching the woman you are in love with make a baby, make a miracle! It is one hell of a ride, and I am only seven months in. Time is flying by, but I am taking it all in. It is the most important thing that I have ever been a part of in my life.
-
There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.
-
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.
-
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
