William Powell Quotes
Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
Quotes to Explore
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
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The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.
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Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
