Powers Boothe Quotes
We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
-
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
-
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
-
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
-
Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
-
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
-
I like things simple.
-
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
-
I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
-
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
-
All of my main characters have been under 30.
-
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
-
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
-
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
-
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
-
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
-
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
-
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
-
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
-
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
-
I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.
-
Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
-
We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
