Samantha Carmona quote: "It's disappointing that one person's selfishness can change the entire course of your life, good thing is that you get a chance at an even better one."

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, h...
ANTHONY CARMONA

As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the br...
RICHARD CARMONA

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where...
ANTHONY CARMONA

There is a continuous stream of opinions on governance issues expressed daily, not only in our Parli...
ANTHONY CARMONA

We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our...
ANTHONY CARMONA

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close c...
ANTHONY CARMONA

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest vir...
ANTHONY CARMONA

I sometimes detect that a type of regional divide is setting in, and there is a lack of real Caribbe...
ANTHONY CARMONA

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Cal...
ANTHONY CARMONA

It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child...
ANTHONY CARMONA

Don't we realise that the student of today is the executive of tomorrow?
ANTHONY CARMONA

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feel...
ANTHONY CARMONA

It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empow...
ANTHONY CARMONA

Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N....
ANTHONY CARMONA

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exer...
ANTHONY CARMONA

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings li...
ANTHONY CARMONA

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about b...
ANTHONY CARMONA

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter liv...
RICHARD CARMONA

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility ...
RICHARD CARMONA

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of sm...
RICHARD CARMONA

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1...
ANTHONY CARMONA

The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy...
RICHARD CARMONA

Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rath...
ANTHONY CARMONA

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in ma...
ANTHONY CARMONA

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communic...
ANTHONY CARMONA

In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the S...
RICHARD CARMONA

As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is ...
ANTHONY CARMONA

Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally o...
RICHARD CARMONA

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First La...
RICHARD CARMONA

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the...
RICHARD CARMONA

Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me...
RICHARD CARMONA

El amor es un infierno donde te quedarías a pasar la eternidad.
ROCíO CARMONA

We often think a perfect relationship is too good to be true and many run away from them in fear. Th...
SILVANA CARMONA

More teens are using marijuana at earlier ages, ... We really need to stop these trends.
RICHARD CARMONA

Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, ... Ther...
RICHARD CARMONA

The emphasis should be on prevention and wellness and healthy living, ... But now we have to integra...
RICHARD CARMONA

Obesity is the terror within. Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwa...
RICHARD CARMONA

We still have several thousand children a day who start smoking every single day in this country and...
RICHARD CARMONA

[Hospitals were being constructed out of the wreckage.] Four or five days ago, they were empty, holl...
RICHARD CARMONA

Let's not automatically just rebuild a hospital because it had a certain amount of beds,
RICHARD CARMONA

He's a great keeper, and he shouldn't be ashamed of anything. I was just real proud of my guys for k...
LUIS CARMONA

We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self...
ANTHONY CARMONA

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern...
RICHARD CARMONA

C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world re...
RICHARD CARMONA

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is comple...
RICHARD CARMONA

I still look at my job as being a doctor of the people, and I'm going to look at the science... ...
RICHARD CARMONA

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, bu...
RICHARD CARMONA

It should be pointed out that we are a week out, and so far, so good,
RICHARD CARMONA

While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the S...
RICHARD CARMONA

We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical sc...
RICHARD CARMONA

I don't think about that.
FAUSTO CARMONA

I was really excited. I was under control and didn't realize how nervous I would be until I got out ...
FAUSTO CARMONA

It's a little different, because last year I didn't throw too much. This year, I've been getting a l...
FAUSTO CARMONA

The difference today was two bad pitches. Two home runs. Two bad pitches. I hung a couple pitches, b...
FAUSTO CARMONA

Just the way we gave up the goals, mistakes that we couldn't clear. It was like there were three dif...
LUIS CARMONA

I actually thought we'd come back after halftime with a little bit more fire because we had a pretty...
LUIS CARMONA

We didn't show up and they came out to perform like the No. 1 team in the district that they are. I ...
LUIS CARMONA

It's still early, but this is huge. I think they know the importance of this game because if we win ...
LUIS CARMONA

Putting two games back to back where we played well actually says a lot. I think we're starting to m...
LUIS CARMONA

We're trying to get the ball rolling at the same time. That's the No. 1 concern. I want all 11 playe...
LUIS CARMONA

I think a lot of our character started showing in this game. I was really impressed with the amount ...
LUIS CARMONA

Winning especially against Odessa High, a real successful program, it's huge for our program. It's a...
LUIS CARMONA

Americans are overwhelmed with the complexity of health information. We have hit a point of informat...
RICHARD CARMONA

In Paris people love and regret, kiss and be happy.
SAMANTHA

How does somebody know you love them if you keep it to yourself.
SAMANTHA

Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We s...
SAMANTHA ISLER

All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
SAMANTHA SMITH

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
SAMANTHA SMITH

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
SAMANTHA SMITH

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
SAMANTHA SMITH

Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
SAMANTHA SMITH

Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
SAMANTHA SMITH

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
SAMANTHA SMITH

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a s...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allow...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obses...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card readi...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the ol...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but i...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sur...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interac...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creat...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' be...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight we...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
SAMANTHA SHANNON

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, an...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being someth...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

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

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hear...
SAMANTHA MUMBA

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great...
SAMANTHA MUMBA

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shie...
SAMANTHA MUMBA

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blon...
SAMANTHA MUMBA

But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
SAMANTHA MUMBA

I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing...
SAMANTHA MUMBA

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But w...
SAMANTHA MORTON

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

I am proud of what I've done.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I was physically abused and I retaliated.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
SAMANTHA MORTON

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON

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

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

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't k...
SAMANTHA MORTON

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn....
SAMANTHA MORTON

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
SAMANTHA MORTON

For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money o...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't h...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will s...
SAMANTHA MORTON

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children g...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring m...
SAMANTHA MORTON

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to ch...
SAMANTHA MORTON

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play ...
SAMANTHA MORTON

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're tal...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with chil...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. Th...
SAMANTHA MORTON

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless y...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I like to stretch my acting muscles.
SAMANTHA MORTON

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
SAMANTHA MATHIS

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
SAMANTHA MATHIS

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
SAMANTHA MATHIS

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
SAMANTHA MATHIS

I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I ...
SAMANTHA ISLER

I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I c...
SAMANTHA ISLER

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
SAMANTHA ISLER

I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
SAMANTHA HARVEY

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. T...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
SAMANTHA FOX

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.
SAMANTHA FOX

I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ...
SAMANTHA FOX

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
SAMANTHA FOX

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
SAMANTHA FOX

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur...
SAMANTHA FOX

I still keep my accent.
SAMANTHA FOX

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
SAMANTHA FOX

I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
SAMANTHA FOX

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must ...
SAMANTHA FOX

I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
SAMANTHA FOX

It's disappointing that one person's selfishness can change the entire course of your life, good thing is that you get a chance at an even better one.

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It's disappointing that one person's selfishness can change the entire course of your life, good thing is that you get a chance at an even better one.

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