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The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

Rebecca MacKinnon

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

Rebecca MacKinnon

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

Simone Elkeles

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.

Simone Elkeles

I date guys who are five, 10, 15 years older than I am.

Susan Ford

I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.

Susan Ford

Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

Simon Hoggart

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Simon Hoggart

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Stephen Hunter

The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.

Stephen Hunter

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Sydney J. Harris

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Shirley Jackson

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Sue Monk Kidd