Powerful Quotes

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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. — Elyn Saks
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires. — Nicolas Winding Refn
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. — Joel-Peter Witkin
His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two. — Alison Goodman
My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes… — Gregory Crewdson
Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful… — Unknown Author
The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The… — Susan Minot
It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly. — Ron Haviv
Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of… — John Corey Whaley
When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly healed and changed.… — Carol Bowman
With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful reaction against ourselves.… — Tim DeChristopher
Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge.… — Alex Scarrow
And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his… — Robin Wasserman
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s… — Alec Wilkinson
It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When you're depressed, it's… — Rod Steiger
Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab… — Conan O'Brien
Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course,… — Kirsten Dunst
I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been. — John Glenn
I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at… — Yolanda King
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But… — Van Jones
The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate… — Richard Dawkins
I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is… — Rachel McAdams
Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d… — Dustin Hoffman
I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say no all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got… — Brad Pitt
The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is. — Melissa Leo

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