Empowering Quotes - Page 9

• When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way that empowers the audience, informs them and brings them closer to the action. CNN has always been an innovator on election night, with the Magic Wall leading the way. Tonight, for the first time, and we're going to put the Magic Wall in the hands of our audience. Along with our partners at Microsoft, we have built a tool to let our users drill down into the key races and access a great deal of data, real time, as the results are unfolding.

  Andrew Morse

  Wall, Real, Technology

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• Empowering women means trusting them.

  Isabel Allende

  Mean, Empowering Women

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• I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

  Corazon Aquino

  People, Turns, Presidency

  "Sunday Interview -- Corazon Aquino/ The former president of the Philippines reflects on losing a husband to the cause they believed in, the revolution that later swept her to power and the difficulties of ruling in a democracy". Interview With Benjamin Pimentel, www.sfgate.com. February 18, 1996.

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• War is what happens when language fails.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Language, Failing

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Democracy, Vote, Right To Vote

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• Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Able, Gender Equality, Ifs

  "UN Women's head Michelle Bachelet: A new superhero?". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

  Robert Ballard

  Thinking, Race, People

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• The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.

  Benjamin Carson

  Encouragement, Moving, Love You

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• The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cutting, Keys, Doctors

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

  Coco Chanel

  Motivational, Mother, Strong Women

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• I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.

  Dave Chappelle

  Real, Important Relationships, Important

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• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reclaiming the word fat was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

  Beth Ditto

  Emotional, Progress, Degradation

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.

  Michael J. Fox

  People, Community, Way

  "Michael J Fox: 'Nobody pities me and that's great. I couldn't stand it'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

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• Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

  Michael Franti

  People, Community, Essentials

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Clothes, Want, Empowered Women

  "Diane von Furstenberg: Unwrapped". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 14, 2009.

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• I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

  Bill Gates

  Success, People, Important

  "Q&A: Gates talks about letting go, the future and the foundation". Interview with Todd Bishop and Tom Paulson, www.seattlepi.com. June 23, 2008.

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• An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspirational, Women, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Confusion, Perspective

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• I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

  Geri Halliwell

  Thinking, Important, Empowering Women

  "Girl power comes of age". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

  Kirk Hammett

  Powerful, Mean, Player

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• Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

  Nhat Hanh

  Struggle, Keys, Practice

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• Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

  Jim Hightower

  Destiny, Order, Political

  "Populism Is Not A Style" by Jim Hightower, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2009.

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• I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Song, Missing, Substance

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• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  T. D. Jakes

  Past, Your Past

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