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• Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Mean, Names, Calling

  Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.

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• Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

  Morgan Spurlock

  People, Different, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.

  Tom Morello

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can be unearthed and illuminated - on condition that I am listening - with my spirit, heart, eyes and guts on a single axis.

  Nina Menkes

  Moving, Heart, Eye

  "We hope to hook a big fish, but we don't know what we might find". Interview with Mariko Tamaki, logger.believermag.com. June 16, 2014.

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• A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Data, People, Scary

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

  David Crosby

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

  Naomie Harris

  Believe, Stories, Messages

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

  Naomie Harris

  Play, Interesting, Powerful Women

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Loneliness, Fall, Play

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

  Phil Elvrum

  Touching, Musical, Wish

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.

  Ben Lerner

  Thinking, Ideas, Despair

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Eye

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

  Paul Simon

  Thinking, Pale, Music Is

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• The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.

  David Malpass

  Commitment, Swings, Champion

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• French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

  Louis Leterrier

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "Director Louis Leterrier Talks Shooting On Location, Practical Effects vs. CG, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• A dream needs a powerful push to move into manifestation. You give it that power by making your dream as clear as possible in your mind, turning it into specific goal or goals, putting the goals into a time line and knowing what the culmination of that dream looks like.

  Meera Lester

  Dream, Moving, Knowing

  Meera Lester (2009). “365 Ways to Live Happy: Simple Ways to Find Joy Every Day”, p.113, Adams Media

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• You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power. The shadow isn't a fearsome opponent but a worthy one. Powerful as it is, the power of wholeness is infinitely greater, and by a miracle of creation, it is within your grasp.

  Deepak Chopra

  Order, Years, Miracle

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• I think we too are the people who, on the one hand, want to listen to Jesus, but on the other hand, at times, like to find a stick to beat others with, to condemn others. And Jesus has this message for us: mercy. I think - and I say it with humility - that this is the Lord's most powerful message: mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

  Holy Mass In The Parish of St. Anna in the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. March 17, 2013.

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• The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

  Darren Shan

  Wall, Moon, Wicked

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• Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

  Nancy Duarte

  Communication, Mean, Framed

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• Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Essence, Sacred Feminine, Cells

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

  Carl Lentz

  Eye, People, Want

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• I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

  Wes Craven

  Uplifting, Art, Stars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no one ugly, deep, dark, powerful or evil enough to stop God from loving you. Nothing anyone can ever do to you can sever your connection to God. Nothing you could ever do can dam the unstoppable love of God for you. His love for you is undeniable, unrelenting and unconditional. You may ignore God, ridicule Him and reject Him but His love for you will remain constant and unchanging.

  T. B. Joshua

  Dark, Evil, Loving You

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• Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Kindness, Doors, Iron

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2015

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