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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If you were asked to go on 'Mastermind,' what would your specialist subject be? I wouldn't have a clue what I could answer questions on. Birmingham City Football Club would be a start, I suppose, but with a hundred odd years of history, thousands of matches, players and incidents to recall, even access to Google would leave me struggling.
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Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.
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You would never have the time. I would love to change your mind. You were there. And it was good in the beginning.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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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.
