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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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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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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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.
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The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.
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I have had every hair color. I joke with my hair colorist. She keeps sheets of paper on every hair color that I've had, so she has records of it all. She's done my hair since I was 15, and I guess I have a thick folder going because I've had so many different hair colors.
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When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.
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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.
