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I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.

~Edward P. Jones

Topics: Being Came Company Could Dark Day Guard Hundred Hundred Years If I Could Illiterate Meals Much Muster Never Only Paper Said Sentence Sincerity Spare Spoke Still Thrown Toilet Toilet Paper Twice Twice A Day Were Who Would Write Years I Can

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I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

~Edward Ruscha

Topics: Being Deserve Focused Forgotten Glorified Interested Object Sacred Say Some Something Sort Though Were World Would

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Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

~Edward Ruscha

Topics: About Art Artists Back Basically Being Change Disgusted Done Dramatically Enough Everything Go Had Had Enough History Like Me Method More Old Possession See Sense Some Something Think Use Waste Work Working Written Years Years Ago I See

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I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Across Any Anything Being Communicate Each Enjoyed Figures Freedom Grew Judged Lines Lived Measured Mention Other People Privacy Public Sort Systems Time Travels Understanding Up Where Without World

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Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Above Adversaries Being Constitution Countries Country Countrymen Else Foreign Foreign Countries Government Knowing Mean Means Patriot Protect Service Those Violations Your

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I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Because Being Felt Fight Free Free People Had Help Human Human Being Iraq Iraq War Like Obligation Oppression People Wanted War

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Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Anything Being Doing Even Recorded Watched Wrong You

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I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Adult Adult Life Almost Almost All Been Being Life Like Spotlight Spy

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After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: After America Being Challenge Check Excess Fear Government Important Journalistic Many Market Most Nationalism News Outlets Period Power Punished Responsibility Role Seen The Most Important

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Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him... the better off we all are.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: American Being Better Better Off Cheney Dick Cheney Give Hear Highest Him Honor Like More Off Panicked People Talk Traitor You

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