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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Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
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I have a crush on Steve Tyler. He's funny, he rocks, and has a voice like a god. There is another one who I have discovered can sing. I should try and make an album with him... it's Barack Obama!
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So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke.
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In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
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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?
