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- Nov 07, 2020
Power Quotes
Lines on power, wherever it shows up.
Rather than sticking to one definition, this set moves between the power of computing infrastructure, a hitter's power at the plate, and the power a film has to hold a room the way old storytelling once did. Compare notes on strength and character in our Great page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
- Nov 07, 2020
Time will change who is in power.
- Punch
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to go to the fairground, and there's that punchable thing that measures your power. It was from one of those that I knew I could punch.
- Defines
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally, for me, the power of appreciation lies in getting better roles and being given more responsibility as an actor.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020