Samantha Power Quotes
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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Dualism is particularly important in both my paintings and my graphics.
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My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.
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With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.
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I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
