961 private quotes tagged power

“I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.” — Nicole Kidman

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“Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.” — Pierre Corneille

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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera

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“When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.” — Robert Collier

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“Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.” — Ai Weiwei

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“It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.” — Mariska Hargitay

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“A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.” — Charles Babbage

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“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.” — Paracelsus

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“I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.” — Ralph Fiennes

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“There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.” — Edward Gibbon

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“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.” — Ida Tarbell

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“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.” — David Frost

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“The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.” — Paul Wellstone

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“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.” — Deborah Norville

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“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.” — William Pitt

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“Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

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“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.” — Charles Hodge

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“Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.” — Raymond Chandler

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“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.” — Charles Evans Hughes

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