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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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
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I was rather a fat little boy.
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We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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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.
