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Samantha Power Quotes

You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

War Cold America Long You Look

I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.

Jens Lekman

Music Me Learn Interesting Know

Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

Jen Kirkman

Education Love Community College

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

Maurice Sendak

Sick Wild Things

Sometimes I'm working at the training ground, sometimes at my home.

Maurizio Sarri

Home Training Sometimes Ground

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Michael Hastings

Tough Questions You Want Possible

Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Change Learning Day Week You Go

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

Simon Sinek

Love Good Hero Fight Evil Black

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Trevor Noah

Funny Find Say True Way Difficult

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

Jaron Lanier

Acceptance People Labor Google Exist

For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.

Dean Ambrose

Me Escape Way Wrestling Out Like

You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.

Cornelia Parker

Work You Artist Emotions Want Whole

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

Chuck Norris

Positive Business Me Acting Say Aim