Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Greenwald

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

Glenn Greenwald

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

Paul Weller

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

Trent Reznor

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

Tom Brokaw

Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

Mike Love

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

I think any company that can make a case that it has been damaged by the exclusionary acts affirmed in the Court of Appeals opinion would be able to use the facts from this case once the case becomes final.

will.i.am

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

Yevgeny Primakov

We should not create a precedent when NATO acts outside the territories of its member-states without a relevant decision by the U.N. Security Council,

Gerald Vizenor

Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

Harry Browne

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

When you go to nano-sized dimensions, matter acts differently.

Allan Bloom

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.

Gabrielle Giffords

As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.

Joe Perry

There are a lot of other kinds of acts and other things people can spend their money on now.

Dave Matthews

Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

Al Sharpton

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

Bill Condon

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Brendan Myers

The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'

William Blake

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

There is a consensus in America that some criminal acts are so horrendous that the death penalty is wholly appropriate punishment. Someone involved in a conspiracy to murder thousands of innocent people could easily fit in this category.

Those acts could be abstaining from meat on some other day of the week or volunteering or making a donation to help the needy.

This year, we'll see games based on musical acts that will be successful.

we also need to differentiate between acts of terrorism, such as what happened in the United States, and acts of struggle to liberate a land, which is the case of the Palestinian uprising.

We know that our guests love seeing their favorite acts perform live and we feel it really enhances the gaming, and overall resort, experience.

We wait 45 hours to rescue miners and it's too late, but the Legislature under the prodding of our governor acts in eight hours.

Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,

John Ashcroft

We will find the people responsible for these cowardly acts and justice will be done,

John Ashcroft

We will expend every effort and devote all the necessary resources to bring the people responsible for these acts -- these crimes -- to justice,

We would never have arrived at this hopeful moment without the countless acts of courage and faith of people like the woman we honor today,