Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
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Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
