Pete du Pont Quotes

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Art
  • Business
  • Design

• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

  Halsey
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• I believe clothing tell a story.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Believe
  • Story
  • I Believe

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • War
  • Glory
  • Surviving

• I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Sleep
  • Which
  • Debilitating

• I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Rock

• Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friends
  • Christian

• At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I don't believe I have slept with an under-age girl. It was only recently that I found out that under-age is 18 in this country, okay, but I don't believe that I slept with anyone under 18 in this country.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Age

• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

  

  Pete du Pont
  • Age