Adrian Lamo Quotes

#1. I believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself.

Adrian Lamo

#2. Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#3. These things happen.

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#4. There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Andre Malraux

#5. It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure]

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#6. I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)

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#7. Eh, I'll be inside," Vlad said with another soft scoff. "For some reason, I feel the urge to watch Hitman followed by Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Jeaniene Frost

#8. I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)

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#9. How long would this sunset take? Time was not behaving the way he had come to expect.

Lauren Groff

#10. Adrian met my eyes for a long moment, saying nothing aloud yet somehow conveying a million messages.

Richelle Mead

#11. I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

David Friedman

#12. What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Wayne Dyer

#13. Come back to me, I begged, the tear slipping over my eye and gliding down my cheek.

Kristen Ashley

#14. People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.

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#15. Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

Flume

#16. I'd say "what are the odds?", but I don't believe in odds anymore. I believe in a universe with a very specific and occasionally cruel sense of humor. But its cruelty is refining, if you survive it.
(Upon learning a housemate was related to Guy Fawkes)

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#17. Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.

Paulo Coelho

#18. It's less about technology for me, and more about religion. [on hacking]

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#19. The universe doesn't waste anything. Sometimes, we just don't have standing to see how events or experiences are important.

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#20. I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.

John Prendergast

#21. At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the choice to surrender to federal authorities ... I saw someone very familiar that day, and suddenly felt very old.

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#22. I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed.

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#23. I used to go missing a lot ... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

George Best