#power

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more. ↗

— Brad Bird

#any #anyone #astonished #because #come

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. ↗

— Brad Bird

#archetypes #base #family #i #i tried

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. ↗

— Maggie Kuhn

#few #hands #many #power #powerlessness

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#disappointment #father #powerful #powerful tool #tool

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#fly #found #future #had #i

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here. ↗

— Gray Davis

#apple #approach #bites #buying #charged

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America. ↗

— Gray Davis

#amount #before #bought #continue #did

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#claim #deregulated #first #flawed #market

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today. ↗

— Gray Davis

#also #authority #build #economy #finance

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#deregulated #energy #energy companies #flawed #had