Barton Gellman Quotes
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Change is no threat to culture.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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