Chris Gibson Quotes

I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.

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• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Different
  • Long
  • Man

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Author
  • Very

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Again
  • Once
  • Arrogance

• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • People
  • Character
  • Chance

• Lawmakers imagine they can be political heroes by voting for budgets that slash scientific research by 20 percent, but they inhibit our ability to respond to health crises.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Political
  • Health

• We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. ... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. ... For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Heart
  • Hate

• Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

  

  Bobby Hull
  • Done

• I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • People
  • Death
  • Lost