Samantha Power Quotes

My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

Samantha Power

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• I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Style
  • Now
  • Doctor

• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Question
  • Human
  • Human being

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• I like women with style to wear my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Women
  • Style
  • Shoes

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • War
  • Human
  • Financial

• I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Different
  • Think
  • Style

• I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Style

• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  

  Haniel Long
  • May
  • History
  • Human

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Style

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Year

• My personal style is ever changing.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Style
  • Personal
  • Changing

• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Eternal
  • Fade

• That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Why
  • Style
  • Identity

• People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Family
  • Friend
  • Proud

• Not too bad, but I went and had coffee afterwards and sat for a bit. I hate the dentist.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Coffee
  • I Hate
  • Afterwards

• I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, 'Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?' They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, 'You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.'

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People

• My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Style
  • Human
  • Diplomacy