Samantha Power Quotes
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
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Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
