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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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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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
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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.
