Nancy Gibbs Quotes
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.
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Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive. And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
