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• America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution.

  Ron Paul

  Heart, Self, America

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• When people say I'm powerful, it scares me in a way. If you saw what I see when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't think that either.

  Britney Spears

  Morning, Thinking, People

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• I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

  David Hockney

  Confused, Reading, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

  Yann Martel

  Potters, Actors, Crowds

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

  Yann Martel

  Thinking, Risk, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

  Nicole Krauss

  Mother, Regret, Father

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!" Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is. And then the third type is a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.

  Lilly Singh

  Interesting, Boss, Stories

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

  Laura Poitras

  Smart, Expectations, Retrospect

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• I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

  Daniel Handler

  Ideas, Stolen, Found

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Couple, Eye, Men

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

  Josh Fox

  Focus, Bully, Important

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

  Saint Augustine

  Reality, Invisible, Symbols

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• It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

  Winston Churchill

  Alternatives, States, Employers

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

  Bianca Jagger

  Real, Men, Needs

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• Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Wish, Climate

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

  Noam Chomsky

  Campaigns, Financial, Coming Out

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• Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Mean, Technology

  "Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Puppets, Strings, Reporters

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• The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

  Russell Green

  Climate, World, England

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• The axiomatic method is very powerful

  Kurt Gödel

  Method, Very Powerful

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• There is no force in the universe more powerful than your will or power.

  Edgar Cayce

  Force, Universe

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• As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Healing, Writing, Numbers

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• Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals.

  Hal Elrod

  Writing, Practice, Benefits

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• You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself

  Sally Potter

  Struggle, Divorce, Mean

  "TIFF: Interview with Sally Potter – Writer and Director of Ginger and Rosa". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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