Samantha Power Quotes
The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.

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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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LeBron's one of the most freaky athletes of all time.
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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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Mediocrity is not worth the trip.
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What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.
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The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.