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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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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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.
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I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.
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For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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On game days, I'm pretty boring: I like to rest and watch TV with my legs up so I'm not on my feet too much before the match.
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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.
