Nigel Gibson Quotes
Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.
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I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.
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Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
