Samantha Power Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.
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Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
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I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
