"The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, theyâ€™re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex."

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Source : "Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months for 'merely linking to hacked material'" by Nicky Woolf, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2015.

Barrett Brown

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“To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.”
“The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.”
“But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.”
“If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and youâ€™d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, sheâ€™d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.”
“The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.”
“Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.”
“Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.”
“What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.”

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