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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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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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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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
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The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'
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I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
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Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.
