Samantha Power Quotes
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.
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You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
