Empowering Quotes - Page 24

• One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

  Benjamin Stone

  Self, Goal, Actors

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.

  Coco Rocha

  Body, Able, Your Body

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Dream, Hip Hop, Mentor

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• The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it's hard to tell.

  Adam Braver

  Country, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

  Kate Zambreno

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound.

  Ella Henderson

  Self, Sound, Example

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• I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back. I couldn't quite wrap my head around it. But now that I'm deeply in, as a watcher of content, what a brilliant business model. As a consumer, it's empowering to choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. I have three small children, so I need that flexibility, in order to really get into a show. And being on a Netflix show, it's perfect timing. I feel so grateful.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Children, Husband, Grateful

  "‘Jessica Jones’ Cast on Season 2 Possibilities, Sex Scenes, and ‘Luke Cage’". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Live In The Moment, Sensual, Modern Woman

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Long, Vision

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• If you look at my policies they're all aimed at empowering people to make their own decisions.

  George W. Bush

  People, Decision, Looks

  Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 30, 2004.

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• And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.

  Lauren Myracle

  Book, Kids, Voice

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• Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen with equal rights and radical improvement in your living situation,' you are creating an illusion which will break one day.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Dream, Rights, Creating

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering/Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

  Lisa Lucas

  Book, Reading, Bigger

  "A Lifelong Lover of Books Breaks Ground Atop the Literary World". Interview with Hope Wabuke, www.theroot.com. February 27, 2016.

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• Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.

  Julia Kent

  Years, People, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

  Ian Bremmer

  Technology, World, Today

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

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• I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.

  Guido Palau

  Ideas, Normal, Hopefully

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Thinking, Media

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For me professionally as well I've built an incredible business that I'm very proud of that is my own brand and that is both creating incredible content to empower and inspire this next generation of working women through a digital platform, mainly through my website, ivankatrump.com, our email newsletters, and our social-media platforms.

  Ivanka Trump

  Media, Creating, Inspire

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview with Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Pain, Hate, Self

  FaceBook post by Karen Salmansohn from Oct 08, 2012

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• Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans themselves are going to define what happens here. And we have to convince ourselves that we have a strategy in place that empowers them to do that and that is realistic in what our expectations are from them and on what schedule.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Military, Numbers, Expectations

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Moon, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think sometimes I forget that I'm 25, and I can have fun, and be flirty, and be confident, but still be completely in control. All of my new songs are empowering, but at the same time they're fun. I think that's important for women. You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Song, Fun, Flirty

  "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Mom, Running, Successful

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.

  MC Hammer

  Powerful, School, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Men, Succeed

  "Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". Interview with Jeune Afrique, umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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