Samantha Power Quotes
I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.
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People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
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People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
