2,137 Quotes About Powerful

  • Author Helen Mirren
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    When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.

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  • Author James Madison
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    The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

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  • Author James Madison
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    Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.

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  • Author James McAvoy
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    Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

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  • Author Janelle Monae
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    Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.

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  • Author Jason Mraz
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    Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it's so easy for me to share that and it's such a light.

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  • Author Jena Malone
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    Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

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  • Author Jill McCorkle
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    Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.

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  • Author Jodie Marsh
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    Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos.

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