Barbara Gittings Quotes

Putting a label homosexual on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.

Barbara Gittings

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

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• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

  Saint Patrick
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• When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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• A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

  

  Ma Huateng
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• I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  

  Barry McGuire
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  • Steal

• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
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• Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Progress
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  • Abundance

• All labels are offensive in some way.

  

  J Mascis
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  • Offensive

• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
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  • Labels

• I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'

  

  Paget Brewster
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• At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

  

  Iman
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• We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

  

  Barry White
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• It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

  

  Edmond H. Fischer
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• I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Men
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  • Neighbor

• I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Play

• To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People
  • Help
  • Health care

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• Putting a label homosexual on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.

  

  Barbara Gittings
  • Said
  • Able
  • Bigs