B. W. Powe Quotes
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 401–02
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Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.
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And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
