Edward Snowden Quotes

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

Edward Snowden

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodFreedomPowerDo The Right Thing

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Joe Dante

SurpriseYouMeanKidWorkingKids

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

Johan Rockstrom

WorldSmallPlanetBigMoved

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

Mel Tillis

SchoolTalkOutStartedFoundThen

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

Ang Lee

GoodTruthWarPeopleWorldCold

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

Robin Hayes

ChildrenWifeKnowTellWhereGoing

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Ruth Rendell

SucceedThinkFeelTryBecausePity

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

Mitch Daniels

FaithGreatPeopleBornLiberty

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

Louis MacNeice

ExperienceMenHandHumanSense

Sometimes I feel like both; sometimes I feel like neither. Sometimes I feel like something else completely. Gender-wise, I identify as a non-binary person, which means not male, not female.

Liv Bruce

FeelPersonSometimesSomethingLike

When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'

Janine Shepherd

HomeTimeMyselfWalkFlyThought

The more we captured, the more we learned and eventually it destroyed the organization that attacked us on 9/11 and allowed us to get bin Laden.

Jose Rodriguez

OrganizationMoreUsDestroyedGet

Rex has photographers around the world - it's a higher touch business: there are a lot of relationships involved. If you throw an event, there are certain photographers you've worked with before and you want there.

Jon Oringer

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