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• The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

  Steve Earle

  Art, Our Generation, Car

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Historical Novels, Fiction, Stories

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.

  Sonia Friedman

  Thinking, Three, Tools

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• Somatic Exercises can change how we live our lives, how we believe that our minds and bodies interrelate, how powerful we think we are in controlling our lives, and how responsible we should be in taking care of our total being.

  Thomas Hanna

  Believe, Exercise, Thinking

  Thomas Hanna (1988). “Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health”, Da Capo Press

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Feel Better, Self, Missing

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I've always been an admirer of women who walk the line of being very feminine and powerful at the same time. That has always been my archetype because too many powerful women, I fend intimidating and frightening, and I never want to scare anybody. I want to be warm and cuddly and yet, powerful at the same time.

  Doreen Virtue

  Scare, Lines, Want

  "Doreen Virtue: the oil spill". Interview with Susan Gregg, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

  Johnny Depp

  Earth, Want, Realizing

  "The Depp In the Machine". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Person who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul. So if we want to live better and invest wisely in our souls, we've got to change our approach to the way we make decisions. We've got to rethink how we use the two most powerful words, yes and no.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Stress, Sadness, Two

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Struggle, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

  Stephen Covey

  Cost, Speed, Performances

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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• The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Rights, Self, Desire

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• The mind is a powerful tool.

  Charles Tillman

  Mind, Tools

  Source: www.sportsdouchebags.com

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• The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Art, Strong

  "Cameron Crowe Talks PEARL JAM TWENTY, WE BOUGHT A ZOO and a SAY ANYTHING SEQUEL?! Says Jónsi From Sigur Rós Is Doing ZOO Score". collider.com. July 31, 2011.

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• I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

  Laurie Anderson

  Buddhist, Giving, Facts

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• The sun-belt and the technology belt can become very powerful when they begin to understand themselves as a community: a community of energy, water and climate security; a community for their common future.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  Peace, Technology, Water

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• Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

  E. Jean Carroll

  Long, Together, Lasts

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

  Wes Craven

  Trying, Want, Too Much

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

  Sean Bean

  Moving, Actors, Pieces

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, War, Government

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• We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we have been - you know, we are training our children from the youngest age to use social media, so it's something that comes very naturally to us.

  Lance Ulanoff

  Children, Technology, Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Generations, Earth

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• Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Men, Years

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cancer, Joy, Anxiety

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• Some people grew up in the '70s, powerful, beautiful memories of the '70s which to me is one of the worst decades. It has something to do with that. Has something to with the birth of rock 'n' roll, and something to do with those American cars. an incredible design. There was so much optimism at that time and it must leak into the process.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Memories, Rocks

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• The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn't even know were there or couldn't imagine ourselves going.

  Gary Busey

  Mind, Use, Vulnerable

  Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com. April 2014.

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