Chelsea Manning Quotes
By the time I enrolled in the military at 20, I had spent years in denial about who I really was. I was openly gay and would go through periods of cross-dressing, and had even thought about transitioning, but I was in such complete denial.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.
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My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.
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Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.
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By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
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By the time I enrolled in the military at 20, I had spent years in denial about who I really was. I was openly gay and would go through periods of cross-dressing, and had even thought about transitioning, but I was in such complete denial.
