Chris Gibson Quotes
The rural nature of our district relies heavily on the profitability of our family farms.
Quotes to Explore
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Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
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The rural nature of our district relies heavily on the profitability of our family farms.
