Barton Gellman Quotes

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

  

  Iman
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• No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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  • Listen

• It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

  

  Barney Frank
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• The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Important
  • Think
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• All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Words
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• I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Hero

• A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
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• I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
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• 'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Believe
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• For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Live
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• I have no wisdom to share on dating.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Life
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• The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
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• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Two
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• We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
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• Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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• I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

  

  Amit Bhatia
  • Family
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• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
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• The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
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  • November
  • Miles