Samantha Power Quotes
If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
