Powerful Quotes
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My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.
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I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.
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If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.
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The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.
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Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.
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The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
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To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
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It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
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Your own inner capabilities and potentials are more varied and powerful than you realize. The purpose of this book is to enable you to recognize and use them in daily life. You use them now, but in a subdued and inefficient manner. They work in spite of you.
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
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The technology and tactics of attack have now far surpassed the technology of defense despite the development of highly maneuverable and powerful anti-missiles with nuclear warheads and despite other technical ideas, such as the use of laser beams and so forth.
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We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
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It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
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I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
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If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.
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If something is to be quietly powerful, it requires more balance than a film that allows for more freneticism.
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It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.
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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
