Barbara Gittings Quotes
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
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I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
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There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
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I saw a cardinal when I was in Brooklyn, and I was almost moved to tears. I was, like, 'I can't believe this thing is legal. I can't believe this thing is in the wild. How did this happen? How has someone not killed them all? They're so conspicuous. They're gorgeous. How can they still be alive?'
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The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.
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If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.
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Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
