Powers Boothe Quotes
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
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Everything inspires me, but when it comes to chemistry, and when it comes to the ups and downs of relationships, that's what's real for people.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.
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Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.
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I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
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I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.
