Chelsea Manning Quotes
Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.
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I am not one to seek simple causes.
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It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.
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Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.
