Chelsea Manning Quotes
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
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I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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Tea is a huge part of my life.
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It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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I was born free.
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It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.
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I am Chelsea Manning. I am female.
