Nancy Gibbs Quotes
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
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'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and incredibly powerful and incredibly amazing. It was one of those things in college where, like, you gauged how good you were by how well you were able to pull off a song from 'The Last Five Years.'
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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
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When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable.
