Chris Gibson Quotes
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.
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[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.
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It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
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I want to drive down health care costs.
