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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.

Jill Soloway

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When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden

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Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

John Deacon

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The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

John Dyer

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Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Megan Smith

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I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

Jeb Bush

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For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

John Van Hamersveld

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He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

Stijn Streuvels

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Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a house in Polanco, a suburb of Mexico City, and we were planning to move there when he died. I was fourteen at the time.

Lorraine Hansberry

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I am a very optimistic person. I don't know if it is because I've come up right from the bottom, but I am someone who always thinks you can make things better.

David Villa

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As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

Brian Moore

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My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

Allyson Schwartz

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