Christen Press Quotes
We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
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Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
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When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.
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We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
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If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.
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For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.
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I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.
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No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.
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We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.
