Nancy Gibbs Quotes
America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
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I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.
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I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.
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Men are like lions. We hunt.
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America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
