Samantha Power Quotes
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.Samantha Power
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
Adam Jones -
My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
Raf Simons -
When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
Karin Slaughter -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro -
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus -
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
Lara St. John -
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman -
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
Vernon Wells
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
Eric Lynn Wright -
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
Adam Lambert -
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne Brady -
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi -
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi
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The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
Bill Hicks -
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
Chief Joseph -
We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.
Dennis Haysbert -
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
John le Carre -
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
Samantha Power