Top 33 Moises Quotes
#1. A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without
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#2. I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
Moises Arias
#3. The decay of power also is one of the forces driving the profusion of myriad criminal, terrorist, or otherwise malevolent nonstate actors.
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#4. When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.
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#5. the spread of consumer technology has given the traffickers a boost and helped them keep the edge over their pursuers.
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#6. For if nature abhors a vacuum, and greed is part of human nature, then greed too abhors a vacuum.
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#7. Specifically it is about how power - the capacity to get others to do, or to stop doing, something - is undergoing a historic and world-changing transformation.
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#8. When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.
Moises Arias
#9. He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.
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#10. We know that power is shifting from brawn to brains, from north to south and west to east, from old corporate behemoths to agile start-ups, from entrenched dictators to people in town squares and cyberspace.
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#11. Today, we ask not what we can do for our country but what our country, employer, fast-food purveyor, or favorite airline can do for us.
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#12. He who is active in politics strives for power, either as a means in serving other ends, ideal or egoistic, or as 'power for power's sake,' that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives.
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#13. Knowing is knowing that knowing is not knowing.
Moises Arias
#14. during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.
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#15. conversations each year with fellow participants confirmed my hunch: the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power. The reactions to my probing always pointed in the same direction: power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.
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#16. It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.
Moises Arias
#17. I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.
Moises Arias
#18. I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.
Moises Arias
#19. The decay of power is changing the world.
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#20. In many Latin American countries, the historic ties of Catholic bishops with the political elite rendered them less sensitive to the conditions of the poor and especially of indigenous people.
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#21. the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.
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#22. I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.
Moises Arias
#23. The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.
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#24. New information technologies are tools - and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.
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#26. I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.
Moises Kaufman
#27. the decay of power has significantly altered the terms of global conflict.
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#28. It's virtually an axiom that teamwork across divisions of a ministry or police force is complicated by rivalries, turf battles, and competing personal and institutional interests.
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#29. Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.
Moises Arias
#30. Power is spreading, and long-established, big players are increasingly being challenged by newer and smaller ones. And those who have power are more constrained in the ways they can use it.
Moises Naim
#31. I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.
Moises Arias
#32. power is easier to obtain and harder to use or even to keep.
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#33. Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.
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