Nancy Gibbs Quotes
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.
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In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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Everything is connected. Concern for the environment thus needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.
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The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
