Daniel Ellsberg Quotes
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Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
