Superpower Quotes - Page 6

• The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

  Mohsen Rezaee

  Country, Islamic, Army

  "International Islamic Army". Ettela'at, Tehran, August 7, 1991.

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• President Obama said that if he could have any superpower, he'd want the ability to speak any language. That's so everyone in the world could tell him he picked one of the lamest possible superpowers.

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, World, Want

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• Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest things I could to get a laugh. I was so awful. I would make fun of kids who didn't deserve to get made fun of. I was just mean, when I was really young. You don't realize that you don't have to be mean to be funny. But, it was something that I was just able to grow into.

  Nick Swardson

  Fun, Mean, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wise, Strong, Order

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• While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

  Julian Assange

  Adversity, Loss, Fire

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.

  Michael McFaul

  War, Thinking, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Nhs, Miracle, Magic

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If I got a superpower I wouldn't say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?

  Stan Lee

  People, Hey, Bucks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing

  Andrea Gibson

  Believe, Fall, Heart

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• This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

  Jody Williams

  Victory, World, Politics

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• The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Gun, Kuwait

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• Being listed by Facebook was like being recognized by a global economic superpower. It has enormous impact.

  Hashim Thaci

  Impact, Economic, Enormous

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• A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Viruses, Why Not

  "The dead and the quick" by Simon Pegg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

  Courtney Love

  Giving, Female, Scream

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.

  Dan Payne

  Real, Elements, World

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.

  Samuel Barnett

  Thinking, Skills, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• Writers have superpowers.

  Cynthia Hand

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a large part of Pakistan which is being torn apart from American drone attacks. The country is being invaded constantly by a terrorist superpower. Again, this is not a small problem.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Small Problems, Years

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Russia

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Self, Challenges

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• As for superpower: I wish I could eat a million pastries and not gain weight. I wish I were Pastry Woman.

  Delia Ephron

  Wish

  "Amazon Asks: Delia Ephron on Books, Mantras, and the Lure of Pastries". Interview With Sara Nelson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I grew up in the American South, the segregated South. Now we have a black man who is president. It was an age of apartheid, and now that's over. It was an age of two superpowers frozen in a cold war, and now that's resolved. So history marches on, except for this Arab-Israel conflict, which seems to have a claim on being eternal.

  Lawrence Wright

  War, Men, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

  Josef Joffe

  United States, Lasts, Defying

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• And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Effort, Independence

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• Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Mean

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