Chelsea Manning Quotes
The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.
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I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.
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We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.
