Nancy Gibbs Quotes

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

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• I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Want
  • Basketball

• It's kind of fun to be sexy.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Sexy

• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fault

• I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Ounce

• I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Me
  • Emotional

• Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Live
  • Bad
  • Hope

• I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Work
  • Song
  • Small

• When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Cool
  • Rock
  • Rocks

• Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Thoughts

• I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Hate
  • Ass
  • I Hate

• When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Children
  • Kids

• Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.

  

  Bruce Anthony Johannesson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Mind

• A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Science

• The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mirror
  • Rejection
  • Realism

• International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Shape
  • Incidents
  • Foreign Policy

• I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Kids
  • Religious
  • Feels

• People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

  

  Mireille Enos
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Never

• Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's come up with over the years. His films like 'Mandi,' 'Manthan,' 'Sooraj Ka Saatvan Ghoda' all have revolutionised the face of Indian cinema. And in 'Well Done Abba,' he has once again found a relevant subject, which even youngsters can relate with.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Film
  • Voice
  • Relate

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning