Nancy Gibbs Quotes
High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I think a beautiful person is one with a beautiful heart.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
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A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text.
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
