Chelsea Manning Quotes

The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations. It is cruel, degrading, and inhumane and is effectively a 'no touch' torture.

Chelsea Manning

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• My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.

  

  La India
  • Love
  • Party
  • Style

• Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Course
  • Soak

• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Habit
  • Stand
  • Cow

• Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Art
  • Know
  • Conceptual

• I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Dream
  • Dad
  • His

• The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Belief
  • Tongue
  • Hug

• For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Law
  • New York
  • Forward

• It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Shows
  • Caught

• I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Dream
  • Community
  • Office

• My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Life
  • Family
  • Proud

• There are two words for everything.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Words
  • Everything
  • Two

• The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Strong

• Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Good
  • War
  • Lost

• I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Poetry

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Reality
  • Words

• I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

  

  David Cheriton
  • Society

• I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

  

  Joely Fisher
  • Family

• I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • People
  • Television
  • Answers

• The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations. It is cruel, degrading, and inhumane and is effectively a 'no touch' torture.

  

  Chelsea Manning