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“So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency and the FBI that encryption would soon be incorporated into lots of communications devices, and that that would cause wiretaps to go dark. There was not that much commercial use of encryption at that point. Encryption, particularly for communications traffic, was mostly something done by the government.”

Firsts War Done Use Government Causes Dark Security Communication Concern Agency Devices Traffic National Security Fbi Encryption

Author:Matt Blaze

“Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I've got. If I'm in a performance and the lights go out, I glow in the dark. When you're working before an audience, you have to make them feel like they can touch you. That's the dancer within, reaching out.”

Ifs Giving Feels Light Today Dark Audience Performances Dancer Reaching Reach Out Glow In The Dark

Author:Mitzi Gaynor

“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.”

“The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.”

Thinking World Firsts Long Enough Light Fall Father Felt Hours Dark Darkness Childhood My Friends Died Cycles Call Me Sunrise Bats Fleeting Owl Father Died My Father Died

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.”

“Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.”

Dark Mines Tvs Hair Like Me

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory, a new generation of our Armed Forces goes forward against new enemies in a new era. Once again, we pledge to defend freedom, secure our homeland, and advance peace around the world. Americans have been tested before, and our Nation will triumph again.”

“Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.”

Needs Mean Hands Strong Dark Time Of Need Strong Hands

Author:Hugh Black

“There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.”

Knows Light Dark Simple Knowing Ignorance Refuse Not Knowing Bias Blanket Willful Ignorance

Book:The Speed of Dark: A Novel

Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel

“I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a "career builder," I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with "Caprica," the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.”

Feels Jobs Left Dark Careers Lucky Smart Draws Complexes Scripts Genre Builder Feels Right Very Smart

Author:Eric Stoltz

“Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.”

Has Beens Made Care Age Born Dark Seeing Months Hero Dad Periods Lows My Dad Statements Eras Hanging Out Daring I Care Bowie

Author:Trent Reznor

“I love cheeseburgers and chocolate - milk, not dark, and hot chocolate with marshmallows in the winter!”

Dark Hot Winter Chocolate Milk Cheeseburger Marshmallow Hot Chocolate Dark Chocolate Chocolate Milk

Author:Nina Dobrev

“I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.”

Persons I Can Sometimes Use Dark Mom My Mom Dark Humor Tenacious

Author:Art Alexakis

“The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.”

People Children Two Stories Together Dark Rooms Consciousness Steps Ideals Pairs Dark Room

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.”

Kind Sides Dark Childhood Optimistic Mary Dark Side

Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.”

Has Beens Dark Rooms College Mom Band My Mom Selling Teenager Shirts Survived Closets T Shirt Silk Screening Homemade Doing Me Dark Room

Author:Steve Aoki

“Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.”

Wells Ends Facts Dark Break Shadow Dimensions Bleeding

Author:Eva Green

“I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.”

Thinking Film Black Dark Hair Skins Blue Tone Colour Blonde Flattering Matched Skin Tone

Author:Eva Green

“Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.”

Knows Hard Dark Enemy Please Strikes

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon”

Sides Dark Dark Side Honeymoon

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.”

Hours Dark Lamps Kindles

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.”

Men Dark Standing Lonely Legs Trousers Lonely Life

Author:Ken Dodd

“Well, I'm an uncle now ... don't know if I'm a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil.”

Ifs Knows Wells Differences Dark Meat Uncles Nephew Hamsters

Author:Bobcat Goldthwait

“Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.”

Ifs World War Facts Dark White Race Masters Ideals Pacifism White Race

Author:Oswald Spengler

“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Feelings Light Hours Dark My Own Rooms Successful Teaching Havens Sticks Fingers Prisoner Exposed Clothings Plates Elderly Dark Room Faust Bastille

Author:Bret Harte

“When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?”

Children Eye Lasts Dark Wife Breaths Staring Fixed Throat Assistance Unconsciousness Precipice

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It's going to get us out of the house after dark!”

House Dark Congratulations

Author:Bob Hope

“I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.”

Eye Girl Dark Strange Sticks Ugly Bones Flesh Tall Skinny Nicknames

Author:Sophia Loren

“I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.”

Thinking Knows Mean Children Said Ideas Done Kids Song Sides Dark Sacrifice Drug Moon Protect Good Ideas Pennies Lanes Dark Side Protecting Children

Author:Bill Maher

“A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.”

Shows Night Dark Existence Fields Winter Edges Stuck Snow Useless Covered Stakes Winter Night

Author:Franz Kafka

“Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of Easy Fit jeans.”

Years Firsts Mother Order Easy Loses Dark Struggle Fit Bed Doctors Glasses Fake Extras Pounds Pairs Gaps Adoption Jeans Assistants Dark Glasses

Author:Paula Poundstone

“I wear dark sunglasses when I want my head to look more like a limousine.”

Want Looks Dark Sunglasses Limousines

Author:Demetri Martin

“It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.”

Dark Respect Army Uniforms No Respect

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.”

Way Kids Hours Dark Teach Horror Scared Best Way Daylight

Author:Emo Philips

“I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.”

People Thinking Individual Dark Audience Focus Members Organisms Hydra

Author:Emo Philips

“We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.”

Ifs I Can Form Energy Dark Brain Elements Manipulate Crops Geese Lasers Sharpening

Book:Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science

Source: Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science

“Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!”

Long Sometimes Dark Creative Tunnels Damp Creative Life

Author:Ai Qing

“Self-defense is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary victim. Whoever declares that any weapon manufactured today, whether it be a nuclear missile or a .38 special, is created for self-defense should look a little more closely at his own image in the mirror. Either he is a liar or is deceiving himself.”

Should Firsts Looks Littles Self Today Waiting Dark Special Weapons Illusion Mirrors Victim Defense Nuclear Liars Deceiving Missiles Self Defense Cloaks Razors Daggers Nuclear Missiles

Author:Wong Shun Leung

“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)”

“If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.”

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers

“I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies - my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like Fargo.”

Dark Fans Huge Taste Teeth Offbeat Fargo

Author:Courteney Cox

“In the past I've been hard on the vegans. I've called them Prius-driving fascists, but now I am one of them. I have been turned to the dark side.”

Has Beens Hard Past Sides Dark Driving Vegan Fascists Dark Side Prius

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.”

Want Looks Faces Used Father Dark Mirrors Everyday Hated Shy Cried Pimples

Author:Michael Jackson

“Clinton said he feels safe in Harlem. It's the only place in the state Hillary is scared to look for him after dark.”

Feels Looks Said States Dark Safe Clinton Scared Harlem

Author:Craig Kilborn

“Don`t go to the dark side. Don`t go bashing immigrants or Muslims.”

Sides Dark Immigrants Dark Side

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I have a dark sense of humor, so I definitely like to work on stuff like that. I do enjoy working in comedies where I can create a fun and broad character.”

I Can Character Fun Stuff Enjoy Dark Comedy Broads Sense Of Humor

Author:Fiona Gubelmann

“he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.”

“I also wanted to have fun with it. I wanted to have the scope, which I felt Merlin has, in his Machiavellian bi-polar way. He's not to be trusted, yet he is fighting for this great power and is really a master, to some degree, in orchestrating Camelot and King Arthur. He's a strange, dark devious character, and I just wanted to have fun, and get away from the cloak and long beard and pointy hat.”

Way Long Character Wanted Fighting Fun Felt Dark Strange Masters Kings Degrees Having Fun Hats Get Away Trusted Scope Beard Great Power Cloaks Arthur King Arthur Devious Camelot

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“Merlin is really at the forefront, in that regard. We get a glimpse into the dark, Machiavellian corridors of power. I like the fact that, although he has powers, his powers are almost in his political guile as much as what he relies on, in darker forces.”

Facts Political Force Dark Regard Rely Glimpse Corridors Guile

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“I only want to keep moving up and up in terms of quality and be careful with perception. I don't just want to do things that are the pretty girl with lots of makeup, I want to get into the gritty stuff and get down and dirty and dark and really feed my soul and not my vanity.”

Want Soul Moving Girl Stuff Term Dark Quality Perception Down And Careful My Soul Vanity Dirty Makeup Be Careful Keep Moving Pretty Girl Moving Up

Author:Nina Dobrev