Kevin Powers Quotes

Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

Kevin Powers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1980

Topics

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China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

Joanna Lumley

CountryNonsenseSameChinaAbsurd

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Jennifer Grey

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Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.

Ann Coulter

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I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

Michael Clarke Duncan

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

John Sculley

MistakesChanceLearnEnoughYou

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

Steven Van Zandt

PoliticsThank YouBetterYouNow

I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control.

Rumaan Alam

WorkControlThingsCannotOften

Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.

Mary Roach

WorkPeopleResearchInterestingSex

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Mikhail Bakunin

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I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Louis Leakey

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If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

LookingBudgetEnoughFindDefense

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

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