Gabrielle Burton Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
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It’s the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field, what choice do we have but to carry the fight to them?
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I was thin and didn't realize how small I was - I was, like, 96 pounds when I got signed. You don't want to be 96 pounds. It's not attractive. I didn't know how to do my hair and makeup. I was such a tomboy.
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
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you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.
