Chelsea Manning Quotes
The unique problem for transgender women in prison is that our health and welfare are also the responsibility of those charged with overseeing us.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.
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When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.
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I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth; and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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I never know where women are coming from.
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The unique problem for transgender women in prison is that our health and welfare are also the responsibility of those charged with overseeing us.
