- Growth
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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
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and comfort zone. That's not very common in the States. We produce our own soft power, which is pop culture, but we rarely try to absorb and learn information from other cultures and countries.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.
- Absolute Power Corrupts
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- Nov 07, 2020
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I was going to play Cleopatra as someone with a brain. She's kept Egypt, this tiny country, in a balance of power with the almighty Roman empire, and she's done it through force of personality.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to look at the Monroe Doctrine and what happened when we wrote that, we stated what the business would be for America's power, especially in this hemisphere. We have always been the colonizer of this hemisphere, wherever we've been.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020