Nancy Gibbs Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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And so you paint pagodas and carp and phoenixes, but you also paint English country houses, and churches and coats of arms, the crucifixion, inscriptions in Persian and Arabic, carnations and tulips, mottos in Latin and knights in armour and Andromeda.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
