Samantha Power Quotes
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.
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Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
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Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
