“Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.” YearsHardStatesPoliticalUnitedResultsSituationUnited StatesEffectsHard WorkStrategySentencesCompareGirlfriendBalletDocumentsCoincidenceChillFeesAsylumsChelseaWikileaksSnowden Author:Julian Assange
“A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.” PeopleIfsInstinctWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsTryingMomentsHappensValuesMy OwnMessagesPercentOkayInstinctSecure Author:Regina Spektor
“I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.” ThinkingWorldStoriesFiction Author:Regina Spektor
“I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.” PeopleThinkingWantMusic IsBe YouFrontiers Author:Regina Spektor
“I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.” StoriesMythLove StoryFairytale Author:Regina Spektor
“I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and your teenage self, and all these selves that you've maybe been abandoning at every date post that you pass.” KnowsWayFeelsChildrenStillsDifferentSelfParentOur ChildrenIncrediblesConnectedOne WayPostsYour ChildrenTeenage Author:Regina Spektor
“Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.” FeelsWholeAbleSongFunMy OwnConsciousnessDirectChainsLineage Author:Regina Spektor
“I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.” KnowsFeelsKindPersonsLightSidesOptimisticOverwhelmedSurrealRight Words Author:Regina Spektor