Quotes by William Powell - Page 1

Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.
William Powell / Actor
Atoms
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
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Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
William Powell / Actor
Democrat
Dumb
Fool
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I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
William Powell / Actor
Diet
Dieting
Diets
Worry
More Much Than
Effective
Highly
Recommend
Worrying
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The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
William Powell / Actor
Men
Law
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A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
William Powell / Actor
Government
Revolt
Revolution
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Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.
William Powell / Actor
Drug
Stronger
Treats
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I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
William Powell / Actor
Draws
Failing
Needs
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Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
William Powell / Actor
Law
People
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Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
William Powell / Actor
Important
Self
Survival
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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
William Powell / Actor
Ability
Given
Taken
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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell / Actor
Friendship
Friends
Inspirational
Math
Merriment
Noise
Quiet
Real Friends
Sincere
Solitude
Acquaintances
Cultivate
Few
Mob
Rather
Thousands
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Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.
William Powell / Actor
Bananas
Believe
Psychedelic
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If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.
William Powell / Actor
Men
Arms
Free Spirit
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Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
William Powell / Actor
Dessert
Guests
Important
Lasts
Meals
Remember
Stage
Most
Since
Thing
Before
Remember Important Will
Important Will Your
Over
Last
Meal
Pass
Table
The Most Important
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Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
William Powell / Actor
Long
Military
White
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One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.
William Powell / Actor
Men
Animal
Reason
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There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.
William Powell / Actor
Enemy
Hands
Ideas
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Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.
William Powell / Actor
Men
Fire
Free Spirit
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It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?
William Powell / Actor
Men
Today
Want
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It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If that is true, then, by the same logic, an animal held captive in a zoo is still a free wild beast.
William Powell / Actor
Zoos
Animal
Believe
Country
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My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.
William Powell / Actor
Accepted
Believe
Careers
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If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.
William Powell / Actor
America
Book
Jail
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A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.
William Powell / Actor
Clothes
Oppression
Revolution
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A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.
William Powell / Actor
Eye
Light
Night
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I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting. When I go into a picture I have only one character to look after. If the author didn't do him justice, I try to add whatever the creator of the part overlooked.
William Powell / Actor
Jobs
Character
Writing
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I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.
William Powell / Actor
Enough
Individual
Real
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Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?
William Powell / Actor
Government
House
Wish
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I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.
William Powell / Actor
Appreciate
Cop
Hands
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Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack Gilbert's, for instance, that attracts women and makes them like me for myself. When I am on the screen I must make them forget me entirely and think only of my acting.
William Powell / Actor
Acting
Personality
Thinking
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Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.
William Powell / Actor
Running
Country
Taken
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I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's life and try to learn everything about him, including the conditions under which he came into this world, his parentage, his environment, his social status, and the things in which he is interested. Then I attempt to get his mental attitude as much as possible.
William Powell / Actor
Attitude
Gone
Trying
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