Michael K. Powell Quotes

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

Michael K. Powell

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I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.

Joe Jackson

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I train hard Monday to Friday. I'll do weights and cardio in the gym most mornings and do a spinning class, too.

Amy Childs

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There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

Shirley Henderson

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It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

Shirley Booth

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Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Tommy Mottola

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I had to really create a positive atmosphere for myself, and that has to come from within.

Rose Namajunas

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Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before.

Rumaan Alam

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Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.

Judith McNaught

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There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

Jason Kander

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I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

Don King

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