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.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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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.'
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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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.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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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.'
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.
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I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.
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There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
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The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
