Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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FinancialCreditPatriotWithoutAct

People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious.

Mayer Hawthorne

RedPeopleMeNowKindWill

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

Mercedes McCambridge

PeopleMeMercyCallLikeMost

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

Amanda Knox

MeBookEarlyAlwaysBusCarry

I have always worked and did my work on the fringe, where I have feel very comfortable.

RuPaul

WorkFeelComfortableAlwaysWhere

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

SimpleAmazingFamousYouSword

When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.

Dennis Haysbert

GoodCharacterHeroThinkDoingYou

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

Douglas Sirk

OpportunityAmericanComedyProject

I save all my problems for my mother.

Chloe Sevigny

MotherProblemsSave

It's important to be successful, and not just because there is competition, but also because it leads to better work for you.

Arjun Kapoor

WorkCompetitionBetterYouJust

No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one's social and political rights, surely we can't pretend biology doesn't matter in sports. Surely there's a reason we don't let adults play in the t-ball leagues, and a reason most women athletes want their own leagues.

Alice Dreger

WomenSportsThinkPoliticalBiology

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

Winona Ryder

GirlTalkingYouKnowHimPlaying

The case of Afghanistan vs. the Soviet Union is the clearest case of good against evil that I've seen in my lifetime. I thought it was terrific the way they got their country back.

William T. Vollmann

GoodEvilThoughtBackCountryWay

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