Padgett Powell Quotes
They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.
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As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
