Nancy Gibbs Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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I hate competition.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Feeling which has not yet emerged into immediate consciousness is already affectible and already affected. In fact, this is habit, by virtue of which an idea is brought up into the present consciousness by a bond that has already been established between it and another idea while it was still in futuro.
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If you do not have the team behind you, then you can't do things on your own. It all depends on the team.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
