100 Quotes by John Powell

Sejam quais forem os seus gostos atuais, há provavelmente muitos tipos de música que lhe dariam imenso prazer se tentasse conhecê-los um pouco melhor. O meu conselho é este: tente ser um pouco mais aleatório nas coisas que ouve e seja justo na avaliação dos novos tipos de música que ouvir. (…) Os géneros musicais não são exclusivos e uma maneira fácil de ter uma vida mais divertida é aumentando o espectro das coisas que ouve.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

We're not asking to be treated in any special way. We're asking for the regular process.

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.