Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

John Barrowman

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We must continue to educate the masses and encourage savings in Bitcoin to truly drain the kleptocratic swamp ruling our financial system.

Max Keiser

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There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

Matthew McGrory

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My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

Sigourney Weaver

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That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really like to relinquish control.

Trixie Mattel

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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Tom Chatfield

TimePresenceSomethingUnderstood

Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States.

Jorge Ramos

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If you really want to follow me and know what I'm doing, it's Instagram. You know which city I'm in and what I'm doing. It's almost in real time.

Chiara Ferragni

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I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Clive Owen

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For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.

Bob Newhart

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I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

Antony Sher

EmailCompleteEven

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

Astro Teller

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