David Powers Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.
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We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.
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Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.
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The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.
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President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
