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.
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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.'
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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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.
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I can't stand reading anything that I've 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.
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Custom is second nature.
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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.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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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.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.
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Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.
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Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
