Barton Gellman Quotes

Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

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• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
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• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

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• Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

  

  Floyd Skloot
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• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

  

  M. J. Hyland
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• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
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• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
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• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

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• I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.

  

  Becki Newton
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• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.

  

  Eavan Boland
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• Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Power
  • Girl
  • Equal

• Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
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• Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

  

  Barton Gellman
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