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.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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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.
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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.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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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.
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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!'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.
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I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
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No one's dream job involves a kiosk.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'
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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.
