Daniel Ellsberg Quotes
EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.
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The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.
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You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies.
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EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1
