Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
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Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
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We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.
