Barton Gellman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
-
Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
-
You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
-
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
-
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
-
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
-
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
-
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
-
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
-
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
-
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
-
If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
-
Science is about unravelling nature.
-
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
-
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
-
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
-
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
-
I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
-
It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?
-
I think we have to fight the idea - that I think a lot of us have internalized - that it is difficult to work with other women. We really need to embrace collaboration with other women. We need to seek out other women to promote.
-
Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.
-
There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.
-
Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
