Samantha Power Quotes
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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I love books.
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Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick.
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I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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...but you don't need to understand everything about a world to live in it.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
