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• For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

  Haile Gerima

  Art, Thinking, Editing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.

  David Malpass

  Commitment, Swings, Champion

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• I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

  Phil Elvrum

  Touching, Musical, Wish

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

  Carl Lentz

  Eye, People, Want

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• In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Important, Situation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Mean, Names, Calling

  Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.

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• I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

  David Crosby

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

  Naomie Harris

  Believe, Stories, Messages

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Animal, Names, Doors

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Eye

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

  Paul Simon

  Thinking, Pale, Music Is

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• Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Kindness, Doors, Iron

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2015

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• A dream needs a powerful push to move into manifestation. You give it that power by making your dream as clear as possible in your mind, turning it into specific goal or goals, putting the goals into a time line and knowing what the culmination of that dream looks like.

  Meera Lester

  Dream, Moving, Knowing

  Meera Lester (2009). “365 Ways to Live Happy: Simple Ways to Find Joy Every Day”, p.113, Adams Media

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• Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

  Nancy Duarte

  Communication, Mean, Framed

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• Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Essence, Sacred Feminine, Cells

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Healing, Writing, Numbers

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• There is no one ugly, deep, dark, powerful or evil enough to stop God from loving you. Nothing anyone can ever do to you can sever your connection to God. Nothing you could ever do can dam the unstoppable love of God for you. His love for you is undeniable, unrelenting and unconditional. You may ignore God, ridicule Him and reject Him but His love for you will remain constant and unchanging.

  T. B. Joshua

  Dark, Evil, Loving You

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• Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Helping, Self Help

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.178, Tuttle Publishing

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• Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.

  Judith Krug

  People, Community, Library

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• Each of us by our daily acts of peace and our commitment to building a better world can inspire others and help create a groundswell for peace too powerful to be turned aside.

  David Krieger

  Commitment, Inspire, World

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• I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

  Nathan Rabin

  Stress, Memorial, Holocaust

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Tyrants, Oil, Ajax

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• As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.

  Michael Moss

  Drawing, Brain, Analogies

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• Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

  Raghad Hussein

  Lions, Would Be, Honest

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• The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  Tools, Ability, Available

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