Genevieve Behrend Quotes
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.
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We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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I'm nothing without God.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.
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I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
