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I think L.A.`s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you`re in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it`s a much better city if you`re working as an actor. If you`re not working and you don`t see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

- Scott Patterson

I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

- David Spade

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You`re not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You`re supposed to be powdering yourself.

- Debi Mazar

Trying to escape the powder puff and the man blush was the primary motivation for this whole endeavor. It`s weird. You think, `Now I`m going to direct, and they won`t give me such a hard time about how I look.` But sure enough, there they are, coming at you with the powder puff and the man blush. (on the make-up required to `hide` his nose)

- Liev Schreiber

`I knew I was in trouble when I couldn`t make it offstage quick enough to get whatever variety of shit I was tipping down me. I thought to myself: There are people working in gas stations, and all these menial jobs, to put money aside to see the Ozzfest, and I`m more interested in going back to the hotel, and doing a bag of white powder, or whatever shit it is I`m on.`

- Ozzy Osbourne

Never, I don`t use anything at all. I don`t even drink or smoke. Never tried it in my life. I only know a few people who use cocaine. Even in the States the white powder is `out`. - On if he uses a stimulant to increase his onscreen performance.

- Rocco Siffredi

I`ve always been into powder, that`s what I like riding, and now you`ve got to go farther to get it.

- Craig Kelly

The new synthetics, in a remarkably short time, displaced gunpowder from its 900-year-old niche as the world`s only effective propellant, ... By the 1890s nations across Europe were rushing to switch to the improved powder.

- Jack Kelly

What happened is it told me those prints were put on that vehicle before it went into the field. That dust acted like fingerprint powder.

- David Black

I just sprinkle shrimp with curry powder and sugar and broil them. Yum,

- Linda Murphy

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

- Alan Herbert

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

- Alberto Adrianzen

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life`s work.

- Alexander Milinkevich

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

- Alexander Rahr

The ordinary bronze powder is, as before mentioned, made from an exceedingly thin leaf of beaten metal, resembling an ordinary leaf of gold.

- Alexander Rahr

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

- Alexander Rahr

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

- Allen Holmes

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

- Andrew Salner