Barton Gellman Quotes

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

Barton Gellman

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TrustPeopleBelieveAmericanPhone

I don't watch soaps, because they're for regular viewers with regular lives, and I don't have a regular life.

Jimmy Savile

LifeWatchBecauseLivesRegular

People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

Joey Fatone

PeopleFakeSomeoneRealSenseTV

Us Hawaiians - I'm Hawaiian-Samoan. I love to eat. I want to go for four titles: 155, 170, 185; they all can get it.

Max Holloway

LoveGoWantEatUsGet

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.

Shirley Chisholm

TimePastSocietyFreeLegalAlmost

In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.

Rose George

LiveWaterPeopleWorldShortWill

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

Michel Foucault

PrisonArmyCrimeCenterRecruitment

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean de la Bruyere

FutureChildrenPastPresentEnjoy

You can't go backward in life.

Jordan Peterson

LifeYouGoBackward

There aren't enough people who are passionate with what they do. They're content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don't want to thrive. They don't want to strive for greater. They're happy being where they are.

Doug Baldwin

LifeHappyPeopleEnoughThrive

I kind of knew. I said, 'Yeah, I'm not going to be able to play in the NBA. That's just not going to happen. Let that dream go.'

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

DreamPlayGoSaidKindHappen

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

AttitudeSadSeriousCurseSomething

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip Zimbardo

GoodSmartPeopleEvilGood People

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