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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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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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
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It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?
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People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
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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.
