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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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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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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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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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
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I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
