Empowered Quotes - Page 9

• Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.

  Lucy Lawless

  Girl, Honor, Use

  "Lucy Lawless is a Star on the Strength of 'Xena'". The Seattle Times, September 29, 1996.

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• Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Fashion, Philosophy, Thinking

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• We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

  Cory Booker

  Strong, Class, Together

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

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• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  Christina Aguilera

  Sexy, Thinking, Color

  "Sexy As Sin: Christina Aguilera Reveals Why She Finally Feels Sexy In Her Own Skin". Interview with Laura Schreffler, hauteliving.com. March 28, 2014.

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• So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new money, and if in each country its governmental "Central Bank" (in the United States, the Federal Reserve) is the sole monopoly source and creator of all money, who then is responsible for the blight of inflation? Who except the very institution that is solely empowered to create money, that is, the Fed (and the Bank of England, and the Bank of Italy, and other central banks) itself?

  Murray Rothbard

  Country, England, United States

  "The Case against the Fed". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1994.

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• I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

  Nicolas Cage

  Dream, People, Imagination

  "Nicolas Cage, David Gordon Green, and Tye Sheridan Discuss Creating Their Southern Gothic Drama ‘Joe’". Interview with Bill Graham, thefilmstage.com. April 10, 2014.

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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• My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.

  Deborah Tannen

  Power, Doors, Hands

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks relationships”

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• We all have choices that we are empowered to make on a daily basis, and while those choices can be limited by affordability and accessibility, we still have the opportunity to make our best choice. That best choice usually requires more effort and more thought, but, undeniably, the results are worth it.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Opportunity, Choices, Effort

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez On Reading Food Labels, Three Phrases to Live By, to Win for Love, Forward Thinking, and How We’re All in This Together". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

  Bill Gates

  People, Kenya, Use

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2013

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• The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.

  Dennis Rainey

  Men, Way, Steps

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• To be in a beast of a musical (I mean it's huge!) gave me a sense of I don't want to say "a sense of confidence" because you already have a sense of that to get out on stage. But I think I just have a better sense of myself. It was a learning process, I really had to conquer a lot of fears and my own little struggles. I feel a little self-empowered, like "bring it on!" Bring on the next thing because if I can conquer this, I can conquer that.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  Struggle, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm a fan of Tom's of Maine natural oral care line for those very reasons; they deliver on both healthy and environmental goodness. The beauty of it is you'll feel even more empowered knowing you're doing something good for yourself and the environmental footprint of your beauty routine.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Knowing, Healthy, Environmental

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• I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Men, Thinking, Feminism

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

  Michael Sandel

  Exercise, Confusing, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Technology, Empowering

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• When Derek Miller and I started working together, we had a very clear vision for the sound of the band. It was one which combined our favorite musical elements: driving guitars, bombastic beats, and female vocals. We've always been interested in making music that is essentially pop but that steps outside of the traditional formula into a stranger, more abrasive world. We love that our music makes people dance with complete abandon and feel empowered. It's very uninhibited music, and that's what makes it so fun.

  Alexis Krauss

  Fun, People, Musical

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Acting, Dying, Dolls

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Organization, Mind, Management

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• No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Trying, Rise Above

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• I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.'
  I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.'
  'What does that mean?'
  'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.

  Robin Epstein

  Mom, Hate, Mean

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.83, Penguin

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• Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

  Paloma Faith

  Men, Thinking, Tiny

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