Extraordinary Quotes - Page 19

• When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.

  Edward Snowden

  Doors, Giving, Police

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

  Edward Snowden

  Criminals, Watches, Departure

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• There have been so many individuals who have really put a lot on the line. That they've sacrificed so much to try to protect the principle of source protection in the journalism world. And I think Julian Assange, and WikiLeaks, and Sarah Harrison have really been extraordinary in standing up for that.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Trying, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the plane of the - the presidential plane, which had diplomatic protection, that had the Bolivian president on board. They closed the airspace in four different countries in Europe, I believe, which was extraordinary, unprecedented.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Latin, Believe

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

  Kevin O'Leary

  People, Definitions, Whole Life

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Different, Vigor, Might

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.

  Mike Pence

  Growing Up, Unique, Special

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I've asked Justice Clarence Thomas to administer the Oath of Office, which I'm incredibly honored that he accepted as he's in his 25th year on the Supreme Court and has developed an extraordinary judicial record.

  Mike Pence

  Oath Of Office, Years, Justice

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life

  Danny Glover

  San Francisco, Black, Unions

  Source: progressive.org

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• Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.

  Danny Glover

  Way, Stories, Want

  Source: progressive.org

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• To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

  Danielle Steel

  Able, Extraordinary Things, Knows

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.

  Paul Virilio

  Powerful, Technology, Reality

  Source: ctheory.net

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• To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

  Paul Virilio

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Air, Sea

  Source: ctheory.net

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• What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used to say that 'Fortress Europe' was a fortress without a roof, since the Allies had air supremacy. Now, if we look at the Kosovo War, what do we see? We see a fortress without walls  but with a roof! Isn't that disappearance extraordinary?!

  Paul Virilio

  Wall, War, Air

  Source: ctheory.net

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• For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Deception, Sun

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The extraordinary business does not require good management.

  Warren Buffett

  Good Man, Doe, Management

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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• I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  People, Want, Kind

  "Robyn Hitchcock: ‘The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Me’". Interview With Keith Valcourt, www.washingtontimes.com. April 5, 2016.

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• In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

  Edward Said

  Country, War, Islamic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best writers and directors. And one thing that's really interesting about it is that it used to be, if you were on a big network show, like it or not, you were a household face and name. And believe it or not, not all actors like that. That's not their goal. They just like being actors. And there are so many actors that are on hit shows that I have never seen, I've never heard.

  Jean Smart

  Believe, Names, Goal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.

  Costa-Gavras

  Important, Saws, Becoming

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.

  Alice Walker

  Beautiful, Mean, Lakes

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me for is advice - never favors. He has just said, "What do you think I should do, Dad?" It's extraordinary to me that my son would listen to and have faith in whatever wisdom I can offer.

  Tom Hanks

  Dad, Son, Thinking

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• A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"

  Tom Hanks

  Goodbye, Opportunity, Extraordinary Moments

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• The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Country, Issues, Revolution

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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