Nancy Gibbs Quotes
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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The way to do well is to do well.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.
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By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.
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The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
