Samantha Power Quotes

When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I sat down with CBS, and we talked about me developing a show for them. At the time, I was meeting with a lot of networks. And I told them, 'I don't want to be acting on your show as the token black guy. I want to do something that will change a network and will change the way people view African-Americans on TV.'

Jermaine Fowler

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Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

Jennifer Esposito

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Being a parent is amazing.

Angela Kinsey

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I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

Michael Landon

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I believe I am an honorable man.

Joseph J. Ellis

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It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Dougray Scott

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You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.

Anne Wojcicki

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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

William Styron

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Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

William T. Vollmann

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I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

Thomas Sadoski

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I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

Kenneth Branagh

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We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

Julian Assange

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