Samantha Power Quotes

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Technology

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessings

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Simple
  • Ending

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Going
  • Inside
  • Outside

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.

  

  Marianne Elliott

• The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Perspective
  • Pressure
  • Accepting

• People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Alone

• You can't live your life being upset about things, but it's a lot easier to not be upset about it if you've got enough money yourself. If you're walking around broke and working a job from nine to five or seven to five, and you're really struggling to make ends meet, you start thinking about people who have ripped you off and getting pretty angry at them.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap