Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Quotes
I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home... I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
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I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.
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Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!
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When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.
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I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
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I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home... I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.
