Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
