Nancy Gibbs Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson -
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
Patrick Kavanagh -
I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
Sam Hunt -
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
Jack Nicholson -
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
L.A. Reid -
Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
Dan Gable
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Oswald Chambers -
I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
D. B. Sweeney -
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
Kara Swisher -
I hate competition.
Marat Safin -
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo -
I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
Harrison Ford -
A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
Earl Weaver -
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
Fiona Gubelmann -
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
Landon Donovan -
I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
Ed Helms
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I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.
Philip Reeve -
People want you to fail.
Lady Gaga -
It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
James Mill -
I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
Marla Maples -
It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.
Lesley Lawson -
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
Nancy Gibbs