Samantha Power Quotes

While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryMake A DifferenceDifference

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

Jerry Saltz

ArtAmazingMeBuildingBetterYou

George Dunne stuck his neck out for me in the '70s, when it wasn't a very popular thing to do.

Jesse White

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Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

John Cusack

TimePeopleFeelLongYouMeet

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Melody Beattie

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I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

Maya Hawke

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No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

Siobhan Fahey

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When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.'

Rutina Wesley

GoodLookBigLikeMachineDiesel

As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.

Mary Quant

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Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

Mike Krzyzewski

ExperienceFunYouThingsBeenAble

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

David Shields

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It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Conrad Hall

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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

Constance Baker Motley

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