Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

John Denver

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If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

GoodMyselfMeBetterYouSeem

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

Michael Bloomberg

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All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Steve Earle

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

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Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.

Michael Mina

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I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

Julia Cameron

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I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

Jason Statham

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I realized I had something new to say, something that wasn't already out there.

Joseph Abboud

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But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

Chico Hamilton

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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

Cornel West

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Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.

Bob Beckel

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