Samantha Power Quotes
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
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I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
