Power Quotes
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A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.
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I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
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When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.
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Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
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Islamic State is following a clear strategy. First, it wants to solidify its power in Iraq and Syria. Then, their fighters will try to advance to Syria's Mediterranean coast. If they are successful, that will be seen as their next great triumph. And then, their target will be Jordan, where things will be easy for them. Already, Islamic State has broad support in many cities there. And when they get there, it will once again come as a great surprise to everybody.
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I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock n' roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and soulfulness.
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The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.
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The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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He does not seek power - yet people follow him.
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Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
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You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.
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The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.
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God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.
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Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
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Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy.
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In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
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When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.
