B. W. Powe Quotes

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

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• When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • People
  • Violence
  • Hearts

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Want
  • Know
  • Down

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Kids
  • Child
  • Roots

• Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Education

• We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Weird
  • Very
  • Bunch

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Impossible
  • Decisions

• I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Moment
  • Racism

• Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.

  

  Kevin Jorgeson
  • People

• In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

  

  Michael Jai White
  • Reality
  • Certain
  • Themselves

• Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.

  

  Bernice King
  • She
  • Mother
  • Peace

• The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

  

  Alan Huffman

• In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • History

• We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Business
  • House
  • Political