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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I don't think I have a signature.
-
You must always do what you feel is right.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
-
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
-
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
-
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
-
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.
-
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
-
Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
-
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
-
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.
-
Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.
-
Comedy chose me.
-
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
-
If you send out good people into the world, you know you've done something good.
-
I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.
-
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
