Chelsea Manning Quotes
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
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To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.
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Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.
