Powerful Quotes - Page 37

• Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creating, World, Want

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

  John Edgar Wideman

  People, Important, Trying

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• There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

  George Jean Nathan

  Looks, Fetch, Actors

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.221, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

  Leon Trotsky

  Revenge, Most Powerful, Secretary

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• In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Cutting, Extremist Groups

  Interview With Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit.

  Charlie Grant

  Spirit, Humans, Human Spirit

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• Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

  Lord Acton

  Mother, Country, Democracy

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• I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, People, Dancing

  "Talking With Ani DiFranco". Interview with Alexander Billet, www.counterpunch.org. January 24, 2012.

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• Your story isn't powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On social media, the only story that can achieve that goal is one told with native content.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Horse, Media, Water

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.

  Leona Lewis

  Love Is, Unexpected, Emotion

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

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• The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and who is ready to receive us into Heaven, is a substantial concept, rich in meaning and significance for human life. But if we take away all this, and leave only the idea of an original cause, it is questionable whether the same word should even be used. By keeping the original word, we delude ourselves into thinking that we are talking about the same thing.

  James Rachels

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  James Rachels (1990). “Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.

  James Nachtwey

  Military, War, Leader

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• Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Moving, Behavior, Filmmaking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.

  Camille Henrot

  Thinking, Ideas, Tools

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.

  Dale Peck

  Gay, Rights, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

  Rose McIver

  Secret, Important, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version - and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That's a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now.

  Glenn Kotche

  Differences, Fusion, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we have that scene where I shoot that huge machine gun, my first thought was "Why does anybody want this? What is the point of something like this?" I know some people feel powerful or whatever and I'm just like, " I feel like I want nothing to do with this."

  Zach Gilford

  Gun, People, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

  Michael Crichton

  Hurt, Responsibility, Doctors

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.95, Vintage

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• Worship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed in the service. More people are won to Christ by feeling God's presence than by all our apologetic arguments combined. Few people, if any, are converted to Christ on purely intellectual grounds. It is the sense of God's presence that melts the heart and explodes mental barriers.

  Rick Warren

  Heart, People, Feelings

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• Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

  James McAvoy

  Consciousness, Awareness, Form

  "Into the Mind of James McAvoy". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2013.

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• The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Imagination, Mind, World

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• Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

  Augusto Boal

  Empathy, Weapons, Most Powerful

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• The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.

  Wendy McElroy

  Believe, Class, Ideas

  "The Great Lie" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2003.

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• The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion.

  John Randolph Price

  Gratitude, Moving, Heart

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