From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record...
CAT POWER I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, ...
CAT POWER Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
CAT POWER I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
CAT POWER I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I ...
CAT POWER I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record befo...
CAT POWER If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the t...
CAT POWER Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
CAT POWER I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
CAT POWER I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I...
CAT POWER Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used...
CAT POWER I've always dressed like a dude.
CAT POWER People and their religions don't affect me.
CAT POWER I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.
CAT POWER I need to be able to face things.
CAT POWER I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when ...
CAT POWER Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I ...
CAT POWER People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
CAT POWER We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying ...
CAT POWER For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some...
CAT POWER After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn&#...
CAT POWER Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up l...
CAT POWER Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a...
SAMANTHA POWER When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school ...
SAMANTHA POWER I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now...
SAMANTHA POWER Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that...
SAMANTHA POWER The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or cli...
SAMANTHA POWER American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and pro...
SAMANTHA POWER Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly de...
SAMANTHA POWER If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting he...
SAMANTHA POWER My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
SAMANTHA POWER What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is ...
SAMANTHA POWER Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferr...
SAMANTHA POWER When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realiz...
SAMANTHA POWER We are responsible for our incredulity.
SAMANTHA POWER The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evi...
SAMANTHA POWER Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbo...
SAMANTHA POWER Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
SAMANTHA POWER You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you...
SAMANTHA POWER For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's lif...
SAMANTHA POWER We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our be...
SAMANTHA POWER All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.
SAMANTHA POWER As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several way...
SAMANTHA POWER The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media ...
SAMANTHA POWER Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adult...
SAMANTHA POWER Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
SAMANTHA POWER In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting hims...
SAMANTHA POWER I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United State...
SAMANTHA POWER Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
SAMANTHA POWER Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
SAMANTHA POWER We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' inte...
SAMANTHA POWER I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qua...
SAMANTHA POWER The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American...
SAMANTHA POWER I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
TYRONE POWER I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every ti...
SAMANTHA POWER When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of ...
SAMANTHA POWER History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. His...
SAMANTHA POWER I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a...
SAMANTHA POWER Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarr...
SAMANTHA POWER The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market de...
SAMANTHA POWER I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat an...
SAMANTHA POWER In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of para...
SAMANTHA POWER Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The coun...
SAMANTHA POWER I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? H...
SAMANTHA POWER Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
SAMANTHA POWER When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along ...
SAMANTHA POWER The Commission is confident in the objectivity and thoroughness of its investigative procedures, whi...
PETER POWER There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.
PETER POWER All of these groups are concerned about the same general set of things, namely what's happening to M...
PHIL POWER Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
SAMANTHA POWER We knew we'd have to go, so we just left. There wasn't a lot of traffic; it was an easy trip.
BILL POWER In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back....
SAMANTHA POWER The Mask of Zorro
TYRONE POWER I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like pla...
TYRONE POWER My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to ...
SAMANTHA POWER There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who...
SAMANTHA POWER Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public servic...
SAMANTHA POWER Someone from Poland complained that photographs like this do not represent the new Poland. There is ...
MARK POWER It's almost bizarre that the Corrections Department, itself an arm of the government, didn't factor ...
SIMON POWER The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact...
SAMANTHA POWER International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military force...
SAMANTHA POWER The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political prioriti...
SAMANTHA POWER If they don't have the proper ID or the handicapped person is not in the car, they can be warned, ti...
JOHN POWER Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
SAMANTHA POWER Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much an...
SAMANTHA POWER Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
SAMANTHA POWER I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things,...
SAMANTHA POWER America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests...
SAMANTHA POWER In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobiliz...
SAMANTHA POWER We've got so many guests who buy tickets who are disabled and are in real need of a close parking sp...
JOHN POWER Quite simply we've got an absence of bad news, and investors want to buy technology.
JOHN POWER All of these things are very typical of what you would expect to see in a volcano that is reawakenin...
JOHN POWER There is an enormous protection void.
SAMANTHA POWER At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce...
SAMANTHA POWER I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
SAMANTHA POWER Not only was he our first professional concert master, but in making things happen he donated a lot ...
PETER POWER If the Americans maintain their position, you could ask yourself questions about their intentions.
PETER POWER It is a massive move, the largest move that the EU has ever made. This proposal shows that any notio...
PETER POWER The Commission is considering making an offer on the agriculture negotiations but no decision has be...
PETER POWER This offer would be a conditional offer which would enable other WTO members to make further moves i...
PETER POWER That turns out to be an effective way to make the region more competitive vis-a-vis China.
PETER POWER There have been constructive talks between the E.U. and China, and the two sides are broadly in the ...
PETER POWER We do not expect to reach an agreement at this stage. The discussions will continue over the week-en...
PETER POWER I think part of that is the taboo is being broken. To some extent it's no longer the kiss of death t...
RICHARD POWER Ping has leveraged the insights of Fidelity Investments as a design partner to create its market-lea...
DAVE POWER Communities that insist on clinging to traditional, extraction-based economies are asking for stagna...
THOMAS POWER I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays a...
TYRONE POWER I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
TYRONE POWER Maggie really gave us a big boost. She picked up that third foul and I was a little worried about it...
DAVE POWER It should allay whatever concerns investors might have ... as regards duplicate spending.
WILL POWER I think folks are concerned about future wireless subscriber growth from the industry perspective an...
WILL POWER There's so much mythology within my own world. A lot of stories that I have are real-life people, bu...
WILL POWER I think they're trying to strike the right balance. They're trying to increase market penetration an...
WILL POWER Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectivel...
SAMANTHA POWER I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish ...
SAMANTHA POWER We want to determine the best Canadian university poker player.
DAVID POWER These individuals don't know or understand the peril they may be putting their community in.
BILL POWER We don't get depressed. We just trust God and do what we can do to help other people.
BILL POWER We don't think the winds will pull it down, but they may wobble it a bit.
BILL POWER This is a really talented guy that is really in the 21st Century.
BILL POWER National has been saying for some time that the parole system lacks credibility and is not working.
SIMON POWER Turkish deniers are becoming the equivalent--socially, culturally--of Holocaust deniers.
SAMANTHA POWER It would be regrettable if such a letter was sent, particularly if it provoked disagreement between ...
PETER POWER No new offers were put on the table by the European side.
PETER POWER Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recr...
SAMANTHA POWER We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that...
SAMANTHA POWER President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation fo...
SAMANTHA POWER Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions,...
SAMANTHA POWER On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately to...
SAMANTHA POWER While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presum...
SAMANTHA POWER Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful...
SAMANTHA POWER India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democ...
SAMANTHA POWER To me, Peggy is an inspiration, because it'd be so easy not to do anything. It makes my heart warm.
DEBBIE POWER We paid $2,000 for what we lost, and that doesn't even include what we would have made on them.
DEBBIE POWER They wanted to help us out, one Christian church to another. That is what touched me so much.
DEBBIE POWER I just can't believe how many people have given to us. It's been quite a ride.
DEBBIE POWER I know I got it. That's all that counts.
CHARLES POWER That was the best Christmas present I ever got.
CHARLES POWER I didn't realize the seriousness at the time.
CHARLES POWER Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sa...
SAMANTHA POWER The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women,...
NINA POWER Until we get more clarity for further resolution to the investigation, it will be difficult for the ...
WILLIAM POWER It's unfortunate that our only loss to a team in Illinois came in the sectional. Our free-throw shoo...
DAVE POWER I thought for our team it was a good way to simulate what it would be on the final day of the season...
DAVE POWER We had a good start, our press was effective and we controlled the tempo. But I never felt comfortab...
DAVE POWER Matt and I are more intense, Ramin is the calm, collected one, the technical and graphic genius. All...
DAVID POWER This is a revolutionary way to learn because you're not just reading, you're hearing people talk to ...
DAVID POWER We saw this as an opportunity to explore a passion we had and leverage some of the skills we had acq...
DAVID POWER But we're willing to try this because we want to do everything we can to encourage fishing.
GREG POWER I've been doing work on my science project.
GREG POWER There are no last-minute bombs.
GREG POWER From what I gather, they were split about equally. There was not a true consensus, but there was a m...
GREG POWER April 1 is not that far away.
GREG POWER No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ...
SAMANTHA POWER We're just waiting to find out when he can be released and trying to find out what we can do here to...
JANE POWER He was fine over the weekend. He was fine when he left on Monday morning to go to the office. He wen...
JANE POWER I spoke with him on Tuesday, he just seemed very, very upset, very scared because he doesn't remembe...
JANE POWER Every time I had a thought, I was praying, I've never prayed so much in my life.
JANE POWER Sad. My God, the state of mind he was in.
JANE POWER He has no idea who he is, and he is sad that he has caused us so much pain. I just told him we are s...
JANE POWER My dad was sentenced to double life, way before when there was no eligibility for early parole. He k...
JEFF POWER Everyone is afraid the PCs are going do dehumanize inmates.
JEFF POWER We're all voting for the Liberals, just because we want to keep our vote. We don't want to lose righ...
JEFF POWER Undoubtedly, this was Chris' best performance to this point considering the weather conditions. Like...
JACK POWER The Tigers' time of 8:39 is the second-fastest time so far this season by a Division II team, with P...
JACK POWER The field events also should be much improved this season as Nikki Colombo has looked strong in prac...
JACK POWER This was a great opening meet for the girls, as they swept Kennedy and North Salem in the first time...
JACK POWER The girls finished the 2005 season with a record of 9-0, our first undefeated season, and the league...
JACK POWER Colby was the class of the meet, running the fastest 3,200 of the night, and pulling away from the f...
JACK POWER That (the Jones injury) stuffed us - we had the momentum. When we have momentum we can quite easily ...
MARK POWER We really want to revitalize downtown, make it a place people want to be. We've got a lot of things ...
LINDA POWER This is our first big event, but we have lots of things planned. It's an ongoing process.
LINDA POWER I have no doubt in my mind that we were able to make contact with the spirit of John Lennon.
JOE POWER I have no doubt in my mind that we were able to make contact with the spirit of John Lennon. John wa...
JOE POWER He's coming through very strongly. He owned most of the restaurants around here. I'm feeling this ma...
JOE POWER He is extremely enthusiastic. He loves to be part of the team. For us, it such a mutual, beneficial ...
PAUL POWER It doesn't surprise me, unfortunately.
NIALL POWER In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natura...
CAT STEVENS As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice ...
CAT DEELEY I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.
CAT OSTERMAN You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you ...
CAT DEELEY Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hea...
CAT STEVENS It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I wa...
CAT STEVENS In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audien...
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited...
CAT STEVENS I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that Go...
CAT STEVENS I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and rea...
CAT STEVENS Communal well-being is central to human life.
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of ...
CAT STEVENS I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...
CAT STEVENS Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it
CAT PATRICK If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million way...
CAT STEVENS Monotheism is a gift from the gods.
FIRE CAT Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but ...
CAT CORA I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and y...
CAT DEELEY