Powers Boothe Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
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How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.
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The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.
