Pete du Pont Quotes
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.
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I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.
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We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
