Power Quotes
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I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.
Brian Azzarello -
If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.
Janelle Monae
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan -
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
Adam Michnik -
I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.
Busy Philipps -
Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
Betty Ford -
Subconsciously he knew too, that the oriental woman is not a sensualist in the European sense; there is nothing mawkish in her constitution. Her true obsessions are power, politics and possessions - however much she might deny it. The sex ticks on in the mind, but its motions are warmed by the kinetic brutalities of money. (X)
Lawrence Durrell -
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
Friedrich List
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Eckhart Tolle -
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
Vince Cable -
Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
Doona Bae -
I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.
Emmanuel Macron -
I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.
Angela Rye -
We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.
Anthony Doerr -
Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day.
Brandon Victor Dixon -
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
Mark Hopkins -
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.
Friedrich List -
Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
Donald Miller -
What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
Pierre Omidyar
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
Andrew O'Hagan -
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
A. C. Benson -
Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
Janine di Giovanni -
A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
Zac Goldsmith