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• WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.

  Julian Assange

  Cells, Freedom Of Speech, Wikileaks

  "No Secrets". The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. June 9, 2010.

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• The biggest challenge is to convince a woman that it's not her fault. My daughter is 25; my stepdaughter is 22. As a mother, I want them to know that if a boyfriend is abusive, you cannot ignore it ?- 'Oh, he's been drinking,' or 'He had a bad day.' There is no excuse for a man hitting a woman. Ever.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Mother, Daughter, Drinking

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• I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  Samantha Power

  Government, Years, Police

  "The Enforcer" by Samantha Power, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2009.

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• Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Emotional, Guy

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• I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

  Roseanne Barr

  Father, Parent, Want

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• When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

  Glenn Beck

  Want, Tiptoes, Steps

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• When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Feelings, Passionate

  "'I saw my life going down a drain'". Interview with lex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.

  Amy Chua

  Sleep, Kids, Practice

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• There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Human Rights, Hunger, Humiliation

  Acceptance Speech on Assumption of office as President of India, pib.nic.in. July 25, 2012.

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• I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Law, Special

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mother, Book, Fate

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.

  Jenna Miscavige Hill

  Growing Up, Growing, Scientology

  "David Miscavige: A cult figure in the fame game" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

  Damian Lewis

  Good Life, Class, Long

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• The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

  Noel Fisher

  Father, Violent, Gallagher

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• When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mom, Gay, Gun

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• It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Old Habits, Meditation

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• I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.

  Robert Pattinson

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Absent parents aren't abusive per se. They're neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they're not parents in the way that we might think of it.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Daughter, Son, Thinking

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury is an abusive institution. I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't stretch and expand the criminal law. I'm not going to change it because you think these are abnormal times. When Thomas Jefferson told the Justice Department that they had to prosecute Aaron Burr, and that he was going to have the chief justice impeached unless he found Aaron Burr guilty, those were special times too.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Justice, Political

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse, mine are words, his was action. This is what he has done to women. Never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women, so you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

  Donald Trump

  Done, Action, Clinton

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy and I have finally gotten back to the point of being brothers and clicked back into the place where we really enjoy feeding off each other onstage like we did when we started out.

  Marilyn Manson

  Brother, Attitude, Self

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can also be a creepy guru/abusive therapist, too, so you have to be very careful. But it feels really important to me.

  Annie Baker

  Teacher, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know what the comics community could do to make everyone feel welcome; I'm cynical and unsure if everyone can feel welcome, simply because so many people have conflicting ideas of what is welcoming, but I think that calling out creators and comic industry people who have harassed people and/or been abusive is a good first step. If we create a culture where those kinds of actions can no-longer go unchecked, then more people may feel welcome to participate and know that they will be heard if they experience unfairness.

  Liz Prince

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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