Samantha Power Quotes

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 21, 1970

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My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.

Joe Pesci

FatherMeLovedPushKnowWant

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicFreeInternetPhotographyFilm

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Stanley Milgram

ResponsibilityActionIgnoreEasy

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Toni Collette

DesertBrilliantHardBeing

The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning.

Tom Reiss

RideSleepMeWinningRetirement

My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.

Dikembe Mutombo

GoodFriendBasketballBuildingGame

It is very clear in my mind that the French people elected Emmanuel, and they haven't elected me, although they knew, of course, that we were a couple.

Brigitte Macron

PeopleMindMeClearKnewCourse

I want to do a biopic as an actor. It's a thrill... I would love it if I am able to do a biopic.

Anushka Sharma

LoveI AmWantActorThrillAble

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

Allan Carr

GoodTimeCollegeThoughtDoing

Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these completely separate spheres. They have different interests. They have divergent values. And should they ever come in contact... well, I've got to tell you, it's just not going to be pretty.

Shereen El Feki

WorldYouValuesNowBarbieContact

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

Rick Bass

DayPeopleStoryThinkYouLiving

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

Richard Quest

BusinessChoicesYouNeedConsumers

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