Padgett Powell Quotes

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Padgett Powell

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

GoodIdeasDoorYouSometimesNeed

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

John Bolton

WorldLookingCreateRunningAround

I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place.

Jeremy Sisto

CharacterGreatThinkDarkPlaceHe

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Andrae Crouch

LifeGodLovedWantRememberedGuy

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

Robert Reich

SmallStrategyCleanCompanyBig

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

Robert Matsui

HomeWarFaceBadNewsStream

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Johnnie Cochran

CrisisGotHowJudgedTimes

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

LifeWorthLivingWorth Living

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

Steve McQueen

LifeGreatThinkingMy LifeEscape

I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem on the abdication of King Charles III or about the sex life of the Royals... anybody who knew my work would know I'm not a contender.

Tony Harrison

LifeWorkKingMeSexPossible

Why are Franz Ferdinand the perfect live band? They just are.

Rob Sheffield

LivePerfectWhyBandJust

On 'Baskets,' I'm not sure what the demographic is.

Jonathan Krisel

SureDemographic

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