Edward Snowden Quotes

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Try
  • Last
  • Programmer

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• Fear is the passion of slaves.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Slaves

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Listening
  • View

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Food

• I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Found
  • Records
  • Fitting

• If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.

  

  Mark Walport
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.

  

  Quin Hillyer
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  • Time
  • Real

• Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

  

  Edward Snowden
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