Chelsea Manning Quotes
I sometimes feel less than empty; I feel non-existent. Still, I endure. I refuse to give up.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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Power for all includes people who are interested in getting a connection. It cannot be for people who don't want the connection. Having said that, I am confident everybody will apply for power once they are sure that they will not be short-charged.
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When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.
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I sometimes feel less than empty; I feel non-existent. Still, I endure. I refuse to give up.
