Samantha Power Quotes

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

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• If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Free
  • You
  • Advice

• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Faith
  • Nothing

• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Go

• If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Home
  • Happy
  • You

• Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Think
  • You
  • Someone

• I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • You
  • Years
  • Process

• Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Experience
  • You
  • Looking

• Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Bad
  • You
  • Name

• My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• You are just your intelligence.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • You
  • Just
  • Intelligence

• I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • You
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Different
  • You
  • Technology

• I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • You
  • Best
  • Doing

• Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • You
  • First

• You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • You
  • Made
  • Materials

• You put high heels on and you change.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • High
  • You
  • Change

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Culture
  • Australia
  • Alaska

• It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Easy

• I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Hunger

• If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

  

  Samantha Power
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  • Everyone
  • Ways