Barton Gellman Quotes

I can be horrifically single-minded.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of freedom is no virtue.

My close friends call me the bulldozer who never says no. I have never not made a film.

I'm going to be that gnarly guy that gets in somebody's face and makes it ugly. I'm a bit of a grinder.

There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

I hit hard, and I'm hard to take down.

I'm not a little, shifty guy who likes to make moves. I like to be a straight-line guy, run over somebody if I can.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.