Chelsea Manning Quotes
I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.Chelsea Manning
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer -
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
Karin Slaughter -
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills -
I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
Victoria Osteen -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
Gavin O'Connor -
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
Oliver Reed -
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
Gary Sinise -
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein -
I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
Garret Dillahunt
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
Tahl Raz -
I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
Imogen Poots -
I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand -
It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
Ram Charan
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
Mary Beard -
Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.
Leah Busque -
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
John Muir -
I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.
Chelsea Manning