Powerful Quotes - Page 8

• I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Believe, Museums, Pieces

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

  Common

  Hip Hop, Elements, Hips

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

  Michael Stipe

  Song, Mtv, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater, that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Hero, Reality, Thinking

  "Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins THOR Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. May, 2011.

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• No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.

  Ellen Page

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage.

  Hugh Jackman

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Finally Putting “the Real Wolverine” on Screen, the Comics Influence, and More on the Set of THE WOLVERINE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 28, 2013.

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• My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.

  Kathleen Turner

  Sexy, Greatest Fear, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

  Kathleen Turner

  Roles, Theater, Grows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

  Hamza Yusuf

  Falling In Love, Love You, Winning

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Class, People, Empathy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, One Day, Actors

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• There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Creative, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fathers can seem powerful and overwhelming to their daughters. Let her see your soft side. Express your feelings and reactions. Tell her where you came from and how you got there. Let her see that you have had fears, failures, anxious times, hurts, just like hers, even though you may look flawless to her.

  Stella Chess

  Daughter, Hurt, Father

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

  Karl Popper

  People, Good People, Damage

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• Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.

  Andrew Weil

  Simple, Ill Health, Practice

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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  Geoffrey West

  Data, Physics, Predictions

  "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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• When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

  Camille

  Expectations, Crossfit, Limits

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• What you believe is powerful. If you can change what you believe, you can change your life!

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Changing Your Life, Ifs

  Joseph Prince (2014). “The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear, Guilt and Addiction”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

  Newt Gingrich

  Our Society, Information, Revolution

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• One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Writing, Government

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

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• The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

  Max Lucado

  Simple, Life Is, Source

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Children, School

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• Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

  Helen Mirren

  Beautiful, Interesting, Being Beautiful

  "Helen Mirren: ageism in Hollywood is 'outrageous'" by Benjamin Lee, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2015.

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• This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you're a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Government, America

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• Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Majesty, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

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