Samantha * Quotes

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I dislike Ted Cruz as much as the next everyone. But that's no reason to be rude to Ted's loving wife and possible hostage.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

It's like you can't even go on the radio anymore and condemn a whole subset of people to hell without getting some blowback.

There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

Control the things you can control .

I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people

There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

With Women, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generations–a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. Above all, heartbreakingly real.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

Energy is always paramount when hosting a live show, because you need every synapse firing, so you can think fast on your feet.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.