Barton Gellman Quotes
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
