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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Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
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I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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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.
