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• It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

  Eric Clapton

  Powerful, Drug, Outlook

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• You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Powerful, Desire

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• I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Powerful, Thinking, Messages

  "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Powerful, Cat

  Sri Chinmoy (1973). “Astrology: The Supernatural and the Beyond”, Aum Publications

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• There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, People, Chance

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• My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Powerful, Real, Blood

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• I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

  Adam Savage

  Powerful, Kids, Keys

  "MythBusters cohosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage | Interview". Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!

  Matthew Perry

  Baby, Powerful, Father

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• Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

  Brendan Sullivan

  Powerful, Tape, Evidence

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• You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Powerful, Real, Media

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• Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.

  Michael Josephson

  Powerful, Mean, Yes And No

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• When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Powerful, Being True, Prove

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• I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• By the end of the 1960s, the United States owned more than half of the Indian rupee money supply, and that had been acquired through food aid. So I think it's very interesting to see the very long history of how sovereignty and food go together. When some countries remove another country's ability to feed itself, it is a very powerful tool. Imperialist countries, like the United Kingdom, like the United States, have used it for centuries.

  Raj Patel

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

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• Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.

  David Mitchell

  Powerful, Reading, Impact

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• When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.

  Simon McBurney

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

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• Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

  Larry Page

  Powerful, Technology, People

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: 'Understand Everything'". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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• Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Powerful, Communication, Balance

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• A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.

  Judith Orloff

  Powerful, Emotional, Intuition

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• If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!

  James Van Praagh

  Powerful, Positive Thinking, Ideas

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• I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Dream, Jesus

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger's womanising ways return to haunt him" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Powerful

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• Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

  John C. Malone

  Change, Powerful, Organization

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• Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, Differences

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• Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Powerful, Communication

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