Nancy Gibbs Quotes
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn't expected: my path wasn't that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys, and I want to be a voice for them. I want to help them elevate their status in the league. That's my goal.
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
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If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
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I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
