Chris Gibson Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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Girls run the world.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.
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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
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Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
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He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
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When 'Main Rahoon' released, it became a hit with the youth.
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Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.
