Nancy Gibbs Quotes
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I'm a pretty big news junkie.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
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All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
