Samantha Power Quotes
Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
Samantha Power
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
Uri Geller
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport
If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
Errol Morris
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.
William Petty
Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
Samantha Power
