Alan Powell Quotes
If your dreams are bigger than your talent, work harder. If your talent is bigger than your dreams, dream bigger.
Quotes to Explore
-
Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
-
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
-
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
-
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
-
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
-
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
-
When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
-
I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
-
Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
-
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
-
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
-
There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.
-
The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
-
Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
-
I'm very religious.
-
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
-
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
-
I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.
-
Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.
-
A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg again - I don't know what the odds are.
-
The prospective increase in the budget deficit will place at risk future living standards of our country. As a result, I think it would be very desirable to take concrete steps to lower the prospective path of the deficit.
-
I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.
-
My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.
-
If your dreams are bigger than your talent, work harder. If your talent is bigger than your dreams, dream bigger.
