Aaron Gillespie Quotes

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

Aaron Gillespie

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• The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Powerful
  • China

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• I would like to do something to help people and help the world.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Done
  • Black

• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Real
  • Parents

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Doing

• The environment shapes people's actions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Environment
  • Actions

• Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • She
  • Business

• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Live
  • Earth

• We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • People

• I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

  

  Ella R. Bloor
  • People

• I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Character
  • Patience
  • Tolerance

• Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

  

  David Cohen

• Racing takes so much determination, guts, and sacrifice to be on top. I once craved, lived, and breathed racing. I can honestly say now, I'm ready to slow down and enjoy my life. Maybe I'll cut loose and have a cheeseburger or some pizza. Those types of indulgencies are not allowed when you constantly have to monitor your weight.

  

  Chantal Sutherland
  • Life
  • Sacrifice
  • Determination

• I don't really mind any scrutiny. It doesn't bother me. I'm going to still live my life and do everything I do the same way and not lose any sleep.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

  

  Aaron Gillespie
  • People
  • Character
  • Contributions