Chelsea Manning Quotes
As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.
Quotes to Explore
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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My education was very tough.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.
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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
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As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.
