Nate Powell Quotes
My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.
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The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
