Anthony Powell Quotes
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
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A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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I love purple because my name is Amethyst.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
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I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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It's purty hard t' be efficient without bein' obnoxious.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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Self-love seems so often unrequited.
