Nancy Gibbs Quotes
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Were this thoroughly understood, industrial art would be entirely revolutionized - industrial art, that barbarous term, an art which concerns itself with commerce and profit.
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Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
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We have looked at the letter very carefully. The Iranians are under an obligation to respond positively to the resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency ... and we look to them to do that.
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I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
