Nancy Gibbs Quotes
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
