Chelsea Manning Quotes

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

Chelsea Manning

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I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Meg Ryan

MyselfThoughtI CanPersonOutWho

I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.

Amy Purdy

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Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Amanda Seales

MusicPoetryPeopleMeSelfComedy

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

Stormzy

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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Robert Emmet

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I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

Michaela Watkins

LoveBusinessMyselfI AmPeople

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

Deepak Chopra

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Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

Debbie Ford

PastBehaviorYouGoWillLet Go

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Chris Squire

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There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.

Bruce Wilkinson

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People are always ready to pull you down.

Arjun Kapoor

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I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something.

Ryan Murphy

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