Samantha Power Quotes

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm just a happy guy.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

HappyGuyJust

The first time I shared music was on Myspace. Then SoundCloud came along. The difference with SoundCloud is that people can comment on stuff, which was more frightening but also way more fun - especially if they liked it.

Shura

MusicTimeFunPeopleWayFirst

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Robert Benchley

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When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

Robert Webb

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I feel like I'm like a healer in a pop singer's life.

Mary Lambert

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The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.

Liz Tuccillo

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There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

Josh Gad

MeDifferenceAwayUsBetweenThem

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Douglas Coupland

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I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me - that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa!

Wilson Cruz

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In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain.

William Godwin

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Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

Susan Decker

BecauseMediocreUnfortunatelyMany

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

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