Samantha Power Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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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.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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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.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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You are just your intelligence.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
