Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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FreeInternetMovementOpenBattles

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

Jo Nesbo

WorkMorningTimeBestMindIdeas

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

John Caudwell

LifeFamilyMoneyFinancialHouse

I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.

Matt Lauer

CriticismComplimentsTakeAlong

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

Simone Biles

PersonalityExerciseWayFloorYour

Actions aimed at supporting deleveraging and balance-sheet repair - such as recognizing losses, writing down assets, and recapitalizing banks - carry longer-term benefits but short-term costs.

Michael Spence

WritingDownRepairCarryLosses

I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

Janina Gavankar

FeelYouBadDoneGroupNever

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

Deborah Tannen

PeopleRelationshipsTalkStudyOur

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.

Philippe Perrin

PreparationYouTrainLastCannot

We're very focused on building the hyperloop. And the hyperloop is exactly something we've described as an actual tube with levitation propulsion and a vacuum that essentially vents around sky inside the tube flying at 200,000 feet. That, to us, is the hyperloop, and we're the only company building that.

Shervin Pishevar

SkyBuildingFlyingFeetFocusedUs

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Nikola Tesla

WaterFoodRoadsCityImpossible

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

Muqtada al Sadr

LiveGoalRoofShouldIraqis

I'm not one of those people who can eat whatever I want and never go to the gym. I have to work hard for any results I see.

Gus Kenworthy

WorkPeopleWork HardGymResults

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