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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Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.
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We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
