Daniel Ellsberg Quotes
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
