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.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
-
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
-
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Art is the job of the privileged.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
-
'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.
-
More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
-
I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
-
I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
-
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
-
People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.
-
A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.
-
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
-
Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
-
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
-
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.
