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.

Nancy Gibbs

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• 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.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• 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.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• 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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Well

• 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.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Three

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• 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.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Interesting
  • Value
  • Military

• An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Expect

• If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Business
  • Model
  • YouTube

• Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Twitter

• I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.

  

  Brantley Gilbert

• I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Air

• But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Say
  • Will

• Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Die

• Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director.

  

  John Niven
  • Done
  • Job
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Men
  • Job
  • America