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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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.
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When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.
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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.
