Nancy Gibbs Quotes
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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My parents believed in the power of education.
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In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
