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Edward Snowden Quotes

When you are in positions of privileged access... you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1983

Topics

Time You Awareness Over See Up

There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.

Living Difference Somewhere Being

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

Support You First Always System

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

Beautiful People World Stand Better

Motion is tranquility.

Tranquility Motion

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Like Intimate Houses

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

Revolution Workplace Workers Finally

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I Am Writing Career Sometimes Will

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

Powerful Twenty Helplessness Volumes

I'm surprised at the loyalty of the country music fan. People that started out with us at 'Prayin' for Daylight' still come to multiple shows a year.

Music Loyalty People Year Country

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

Jonathan Miller

Time People Become Decided

I like using traditional beliefs in my fantasies, even though I always end up warping them to suit my purpose: it somehow makes everything feel more 'solid' if it's got a long history behind it.

Jonathan Stroud

History Purpose End Feel Long More

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

People Smoking Remember Back Turn

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