J. F. Powers Quotes
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.
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There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors
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Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.
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I loathe the word 'celebrity,' and I hope I'm not a diva. Whenever I see diva-ish behaviour, I just leave the room; I find it appalling. You should always try to be civil to people.
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If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
