Powerful Quotes - Page 30

• We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Fall, Choices

  Remarks From President Obama and Prime Minister Brown, www.nytimes.com. April 1, 2009.

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• Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.

  Bonnie St. John

  Support, Source, Healer

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• The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Sports, Hate, Racism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Thinking, Desire

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

  Philip Schultz

  Art, Struggle, Work Out

  Source: poems.com

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• While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

  Barack Obama

  Blow, Wind, Progress

  Barack Obama's remarks prior to departure from Accra, Ghana, July 11, 2009.

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• Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Unity, Tonight

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Common Humanity, Upheaval

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, World, Pay

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, Expectations

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• You have the courage and power to live your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Dream, Power

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• I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.

  Uwem Akpan

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Working Together, Progress

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• The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

  George Scialabba

  Should, Institutions, Inspection

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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• One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Ambition, Men

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• Being with the president’s daughter, no matter who the president is, you are connected to the most powerful political force on earth, and that’s scary. And when you mix crystal meth and alcohol with that, it’s…kind of exciting. A little too exciting.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Alcohol, Scary

  "Rufus Wainwright: Baroque Pop Idol". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Good days are upon us.

  Narendra Modi

  Good Day

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• The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first Vadodara has first right on me.

  Narendra Modi

  Morning, Media, Firsts

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• This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Country, Kings

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• Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

  Narendra Modi

  War, Poverty, Defeat

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• I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

  Narendra Modi

  Men, People, Want

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• Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.

  Narendra Modi

  Children, Democracy, Maa

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• With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.

  Narendra Modi

  Gun, Earth, Green

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• Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, People, Democracy

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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Real, Issues, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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