- 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
We still see that people don't really realize that electric cars are here right now. And when we show up with an actual vehicle, and you see it drive away under its own power, it's still kind of a jaw-dropping moment for a lot of people.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this proud American tradition of worrying about the power of communication companies. That going all the way back to the founding, we've tried to limit the power of monopolies that played a role in our democracy.
- Delegates
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
- Good Friday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything within our power to maintain the Good Friday Agreement.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a free Europe... the system of power lies on three pillars. These are democracy, rule of law, and human rights. It's impossible to use one against the other.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doug Stanhope is great - I saw his 'Burning the Bridge to Nowhere' show and it was inspiring. He's like an anti-shaman, taking the sting out of a bunch of things we've chosen to give a symbolic power to. I've made it sound noble and worthy there, it's not, it's really funny.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said jokes where I thought people might get up and hit me for this. A couple of people have thought about it. But they didn't. It gives you a lot of power, because if you're on shows where people are worried about getting sacked and you're not, then you're transcendent because you say what other people would like to say.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
- Lust
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- Nov 07, 2020
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020