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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Native Americans have faced centuries of atrocities to their people, their land, and their culture - all under various presidents who took an oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.
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For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.
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Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate, even more than my innocence.
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We can't change it now. Obviously, it would be better if he was playing.
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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?
