When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
When people accuse us of taking coltan from Congo, I don't understand what they mean. The quality of our own coltan here from Rwanda is much better. But still people from the UN come here, we show them our coltan mines, we show them the documents, then they go and say: Rwanda smuggles coltan.
I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.
WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
But then history does not only consist of documents.
We have published about 800,000 documents of various kinds that relate to Russia. Most of those are critical; and a great many books have come out of our publications about Russia, most of which are critical.
