Arthur Powell Davies (A. Powell Davies) Quotes
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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I didn't comment on any actress, and I have never compared myself with any senior actresses. Moreover, I have said many times that I have learnt a lot from my seniors. Don't spread rumours and false news about me.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
