Superpower Quotes - Page 6

• If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, America, Wildlife

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• There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

  John Pilger

  War, Games, Differences

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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• The world is now unipolar and contains o­nly o­ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.

  Stephen Harper

  Exercise, Unique, Political

  "The New North Strong and Free". Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper, May 5, 2003.

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• Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Responsibility, Iraq

  "Live: Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Isaac, www.aei.org. January 01, 2004.

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• I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Persuading, Negotiating, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Blood, Broken, Promise

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• 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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• My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

  Scott Derrickson

  Would Be, Needs, Use

  Source: www.buzzfeed.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Writers have superpowers.

  Cynthia Hand

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Mean

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• I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Russia

  "Transcript: George H.W. Bush on "FOX News Sunday". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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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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