Richard Powers Quotes
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
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Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
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What will happen, will happen.
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The Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.
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You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.
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I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
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You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.
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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
