Michael K. Powell Quotes

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Universe
  • Seems
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• My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

  

  Dana Fox
  • People
  • Life
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• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Long
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• Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Best
  • Working
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• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

  

  Larry David
  • Reading
  • Said
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• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
  • True
  • Faith
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• Custom is second nature.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Second
  • Custom

• I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  

  Larry David
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Party

• I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Night
  • You

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Myself
  • More
  • Now

• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hope
  • Own
  • Pictures

• One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Time
  • Book
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• When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
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• I'm obsessed with brows, so Revlon's ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Just
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• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Poetry
  • Creator
  • Queen

• If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Day

• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Time
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• I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Music
  • Lost
  • Internet

• It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Internet
  • Bass Player
  • Credits

• Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Shadow
  • Crap

• Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

  

  Michael K. Powell
  • Internet
  • System
  • Essence