Samantha Power Quotes
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.
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Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
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Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
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And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
