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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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With digital attacks becoming rampant, the computer nerds who work for the good guys to thwart such incursions have become the new Navy SEALs - elite commandos who can carry out sophisticated operations on the battlefield of cyberspace.
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When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
