Barton Gellman Quotes
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.
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Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
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If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
