Carl Pope Quotes
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
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The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.
