Home / Quotes / Quote by Michael K. Powell

Quote by Michael K. Powell

“What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.”

Quote by Michael K. Powell

Author

Michael K. Powell

Michael K. Powell is an American politician born on March 23, 1963. He served as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where he had a significant impact on the communication policy and regulation field. more

You May Also Like

“Divorce was the darkest, saddest place I had ever been. It was a struggle - there were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life. You get through it. It's a process that's not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.”

Easy Struggle Worst Divorce Candid

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain to me. In a sense it is a transfiguration, what comes at me in my life or what I see going on in the world comes out as something beautiful or hopefully beautiful.”

World Beautiful Painting Hopefully

Author:John Lurie

“I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done and I want people to see them. And want them to be recognized. But while I am making them I just try to get lost in them. Kind of like it's a prayer.”

People Trying Kind Done Prayer Painting Communication

Author:John Lurie

“I attempt to create a world that hypnotizes me as I make it. I hope others can get lost in it in the same way, but to be honest, I don't care that much. It isn't like a basketball player is out on the court hoping that people like the game of basketball as the game goes on. If people don't see it, they don't see it. It is a fragile thing and most people recognize that and respect it. Even if for whatever reason, they don't like the painting.”

People World Reason Care Player Honest Painting Basketball Being Honest Basketball Player

Author:John Lurie

“The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.”

Trying Painting

Author:John Lurie

“I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical things in the paintings just sort of happen. They aren't things I thought of in advance. They are more things I am given. What paint does, in watercolor more than oil but it happens in oil too, are things one never expects if you work freely. I suppose I learned a lot coming to this after years of playing improvisational music. I have to trust my intuition and I work in the moment, when that moment seems to be happening. And to leave it alone when it is not.”

Moments Painting Paint Intuition

Author:John Lurie

“I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are not the center of the universe and that we think we are will most likely be the end of us. Then nature will go on its way, with humans only being a faint ugly memory. And yes I am fond of animals or most of them.”

Thinking Earth Universe Memories Animal Ugly Native Native American

Author:John Lurie

“I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years or so, more than almost anyone else are people like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor and even Chris Rock, back when he was doing the edgier stuff.”

People Thinking Culture Serious

Author:John Lurie

“I don't really stay away from politics but the bullshit just gets to be too much. Any political tweets I take down after an hour or so. They are met with such a wall of stupidity and anger, it is hardly worth it to leave it up. Particularly, if you say anything about Hillary Clinton, the responses are just nuts - "YOU JUST FEAR SMART, STRONG WOMEN, MR. MAN".”

Men Political Strong Hours Wall Smart Clinton Response Stupidity Bullshit Strong Women Worth It Say Anything Tweet

Author:John Lurie

“There are people clamoring for the election of Donald Trump because they hate anyone whose skin is a slight shade different than theirs. They are calling for the eradication of Islam and want to build a wall along an arbitrary line that keeps Mexicans out of the land they probably have more of a right to cross than the people who now somehow think they have a right to be there.”

People Thinking Different Hate Wall Skins Election Islam

Author:John Lurie