Samantha Power Quotes
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
