Richard Powers Quotes
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
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With liberalisation, Indian industry gained international exposure because of which it became imperative for companies to rework their strategies to become globally competitive.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
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It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
