Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question of how digital technology can be structured, governed, and used to maximize the good and minimize the evil.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodTechnologyTimeEvilPolitical

I love roles where it's not about being perfect or being beautiful, where there is more of an interest in what's going on inside the character.

Jeryl Prescott

LoveCharacterBeautifulPerfect

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Joanne Harris

FatherMotherHomeSchoolStudent

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.

Max Heindel

GodSpiritualPeopleHumanityMeet

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

Ann Veneman

HealthAnimalKnowMatterMuscle

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.

Michael Hastings

AloneHotelLateNewsLivingTwice

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

John Updike

DreamsYour DreamsManYouHuman

I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal.

Steve Earle

CountryPlayRockWhyUnderstand

With what I have learned in Italy, if I have the chance to learn something more in England I think it would make me a more complete, better player.

Alvaro Morata

MeChanceThinkBetterLearnMore

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

Steven Stucky

MusicMeHairFeelRacingEmotional

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

Julia Sweeney

LifeThinkingWhyTryWhy NotYour

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Lisel Mueller

MeWritingLanguageAlwaysSomething

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Claire Messud

SchoolMemoryLongPlayLinesAbout

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