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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Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
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The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
