Padgett Powell Quotes

All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

Padgett Powell

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Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

Jimmy Page

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For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Jim Costa

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The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.

Andy Dunn

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It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.

Maysoon Zayid

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When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.

Robert Gottlieb

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

John Polanyi

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A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Steve Prefontaine

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If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

Trevor Paglen

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Changing the conversation about how Americans perceive veterans is really important. These are hardworking, dedicated, innovative people who deserve quality employment when they return home from their military service.

Rob Riggle

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If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

Ron Suskind

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When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.

Mary Pilon

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I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

Lisa Murkowski

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