Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
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Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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To act is to rest.
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Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey
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Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y todo, es silencio.
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The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
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That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
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It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
