Chelsea Manning Quotes
Freedom used to be something that I dreamed of but never allowed myself to fully imagine.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I studied Morse code.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.
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My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
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The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
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Freedom used to be something that I dreamed of but never allowed myself to fully imagine.
