Jim Gibbons Quotes
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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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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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.
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No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
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I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
