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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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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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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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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I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.
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I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
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One can only blaspheme if one believes.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
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Being religious is quintessentially American.
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Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go to kickboxing class every morning at 5 A.M. You know, try to do all the things to take care of the outside of your body, but you also should do - and have to do things that take care of the inside of your body.
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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?
