"It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified."

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Source : "Tomgram: Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt, The Snowden Reboot". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. October 19, 2014.

Laura Poitras

#Everyday Quotes #Whistleblowers Quotes #Willing Quotes

“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”
“Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at lifeâ€™s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the wayâ€¦Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, â€˜there is joy is self-forgetfulness.â€™ So I try to make the light in othersâ€™ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on othersâ€™ lips my happiness.”
“It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.”
“If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.”
“Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.”
“Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'”
“I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.”
“Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten, but a new day enjoyed in another way. A way that could not have been but for the sadnessâ€™s existence.”

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