Barton Gellman Quotes
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
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I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.
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After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me.
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There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.
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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
