Samantha Power Quotes
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
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I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there.
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I haven't thought too much about the word 'foodie,' but I definitely lie closer to the 'I just need to eat a thing to fuel myself' end of the spectrum. It's not quite a hobby. I don't feel a need to try all the newest restaurants.
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I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
