Samantha Power Quotes

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Samantha Power

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• When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Transformation

• When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • New
  • Cute

• I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • Want
  • Russia

• Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Value
  • Successful

• Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Red
  • Hell

• A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Same

• I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Like
  • Star

• I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • People
  • Bad
  • Same

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Time
  • Drama

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Good
  • May
  • America

• When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • See
  • Innocent

• I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Movie

• Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Choices
  • Looks
  • Persons

• I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Time
  • Spending Time