Samantha Power Quotes

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

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• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Equal

• I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • House

• Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Simple
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Believe
  • Worst
  • Russia

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Long
  • Action

• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Words

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Myself
  • Hell
  • Being Myself

• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Remember

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'

  

  Eli Pariser
  • People
  • Great
  • Job

• When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Enemy

• You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

  

  M. L. Stedman

• I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

  

  Samantha Power
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