Richard Powers Quotes
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
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Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.
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There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
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To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.
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If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.
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...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.
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In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.
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We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.
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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
