"In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Alex Gibney

#Motivation Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Balls Quotes

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
“Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.”
“the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.264, Penguin
“... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?”
“There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so I often find myself better able to write from a point of view that isn't exactly my own.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.”
“Going back to something is harder than you think.”
“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.”

Source : Peter Corning (2003). “Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind”, p.299, Cambridge University Press

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