Edward Snowden Quotes

'When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee...' Praxis films, 2013

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• I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Research

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Mad
  • Name

• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

  

  Sam Houston
  • May
  • Learn
  • Texas

• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Book

• When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Media
  • Talk
  • Social Media

• He that is rich is wise.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Wise
  • Rich
  • He

• The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Way
  • Cooking

• Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Work
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Insanity

• I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Forever

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women

• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Age

• The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

  

  Leo Buscaglia

• We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • First
  • Songs
  • Touch

• I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Things
  • Stuff
  • Airplanes

• A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

  

  Roger Caras
  • Genius
  • Cat
  • Manipulative

• Our Army is filled with women and men who care and who are in a position to change and improve the conditions under which we serve

  

  Claudia Kennedy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Army

• 'When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee...' Praxis films, 2013

  

  Edward Snowden