Padgett Powell Quotes

I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

Padgett Powell

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One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

John Dickerson

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Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

Robert Stigwood

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I do business in 170 countries; none of them is perfect. There is not even one country that I think of, and I am like, 'God, that did everything that I wanted it to do.'

Jeffrey R. Immelt

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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

Andy Summers

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I'm extremely proud I'm an Asian female and I'm on television, because there aren't many of us.

Su-chin Pak

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I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Tony Bennett

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I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Mason Cooley

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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Louise Bogan

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I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

Logic

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When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.

Jay Ellis

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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Joseph Heller

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I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

Johnny Weir

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