Michael K. Powell Quotes
We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
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I want to entertain.
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I like going to places that are so different than where I'm from.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60.
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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
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When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.
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We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.
