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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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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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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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
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I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.
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images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered
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The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.
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I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
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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.
