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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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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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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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
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Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
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The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
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The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
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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.
