Samantha Power Quotes

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Technology

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessings

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Simple
  • Ending

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Going
  • Inside
  • Outside

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
  • Fine
  • Soft

• If I had all the filmmakers that traumatized me when I was a little kid in this room, all I would say is, 'Thank you,' because they've made me who I am. As much as I say 'trauma,' it all comes from a place of love. The fact that I am feeling emotions at all based on a work is a wonderful thing, so I'm happy to be a part of that discussion.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

  

  Johnny Giles
  • Win
  • Plan
  • Match

• I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great – once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Surprised

• To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

  

  Pauline Hanson
  • People
  • Strong
  • Peace

• The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • People
  • Cool
  • Violence

• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
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