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Powers Boothe Quotes

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 1, 1948

Topics

You Boring Real Always Would Around

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

Family Father Music Struggle Me

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Knowledge Better Understanding You

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Failure Growing Up Drive Weird You

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

Good Friend Challenges Economics

I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.

Life My Life Feeling Betrayal Know

Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

God Children Long Earth Important

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Life Long You Always Behave Ethical

I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.

Douglas Coupland

Snow Week You Gym Three Want

I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling.

Home Girl Personality Me Hometown

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

Failure Sad Time Me Career Holiday

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

Chance Giving Others Talk Never

I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

People Listening Attention You Find

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