I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think. – Nicolas Cage
I would say that ‘Schindler’s List,’ as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed. – Edward Zwick
I started finding hearts in things – whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful. – Drew Barrymore
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you’re more willing to stand up and be counted. – Margaret Cho
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist. – Fidel Castro
Good teams I played on… just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it’s a powerful thing. – Don Mattingly
Nuclear countries are those countries that are big and powerful. It is difficult to criticize them and try to lead them onto a humanitarian path. But we can only do what we can and appeal to their sense of reason. – Masatoshi Koshiba
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I’m performing at The Palace Theatre. – Deborah Cox
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. – Christina Hoff Sommers
High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I’d heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script. – Neill Blomkamp
I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing. – Charles King
Lately I’ve been falling asleep listening to ‘Common One’ by Van Morrison, specifically the song ‘Summertime in England.’ It’s 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people’s entire catalog. – Nate Ruess
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself. – P. J. O’Rourke
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy. – Donald Evans
Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it’s really great storytelling. – David Harsanyi
Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created. – Noam Chomsky
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected. – Pete Hamill
Applause is the most powerful thing… people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee. – C. C. H. Pounder
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try. – Gary Zukav
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues – and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It’s the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. – Dee Dee Myers
‘The Exorcist’ is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects. – Frank Darabont
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism. – Geoff Mulgan
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance. – Ernst Mach
Monsters almost always are culture’s way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful. – Catherynne M. Valente
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person. – Eckhart Tolle
