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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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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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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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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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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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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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 don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.
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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.
