Nancy Gibbs Quotes
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
