Carl Pope Quotes

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

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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.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Very
  • Sensitive

• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Car
  • Design

• There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Man
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • People
  • Work
  • Crazy

• Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Just
  • Go
  • Pants

• I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Packing

• A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

  

  Omar Epps
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Instincts

• 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.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• 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.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Everyone
  • London
  • Calling

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Football

• American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Powerful

• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Good
  • Real
  • True

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Why
  • Leadership
  • Commitment

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• Joy is your birthright.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Joy
  • Birthright

• Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • People
  • Giving
  • Sometimes

• You are dumb. you are dumb. i think you are dumb. i just think you're dumb. i'm just putting my opinion forth, i think you're dumb, dumb, dumb.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Dumb

• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • Long
  • Small
  • City

• The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Facts
  • Worship
  • Praise

• The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

  

  Carl Pope
  • Facts
  • Independence
  • Oil