Today it’s almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power… I wouldn’t hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right. – Ida Lupino
If a power station were to be built down the road, I’d prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels. – James Lovelock
My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble. – James D. Watson
I think ‘The Wire’ is my all-time favorite TV show. It’s so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power. – Joel Kinnaman
We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They’re taking us back to feudalism and I really don’t want that. But I’m very far from being a socialist. – John Lydon
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. – Joel Osteen
Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, ‘power’ and ‘knowledge.’ As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his ‘knowledge’ and ‘power’ are to be something else. – Ian Hacking
‘Power Rangers’ is a massive global brand, and we believe that filmmaker Dean Israelite’s singular vision will not only thrill a generation of existing fans but will bring magic to a whole new global audience. – Jon Feltheimer
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, ‘The church is not meant to be the master of the state.’ We don’t sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people’s throats. – Jim Wallis
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. – Jane Austen
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. – John Stuart Mill
The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that. – Jorge Ramos
From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest. – Jane Goodall
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art. – Jeanne Moreau
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. – John Roberts
The puma… the cat… is not just about power and speed and strength… but it is also a very elegant animal. That’s what we’ve tried to reflect in our products. – Jochen Zeitz
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other. – Irvine Welsh
There are two things that interest me – and they’re both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it. – Joss Whedon
Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them. – Jack Keane
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler’s short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan
The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium. – Jason Calacanis
I’m against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I’m not going to foolhardily give away my power. – Iman
This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He’s a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won’t see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it. – Jerry Jones
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – Isabel Allende
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. – Imre Lakatos
