Nigel Gibson Quotes

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

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• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Children

• When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• When trouble ends even troubles please.

  

  Sophocles
  • Trouble
  • Ends
  • Please

• One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Quality
  • Excellence
  • Shining

• The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hatred
  • Affection
  • Human Heart

• It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Artist
  • Suffering
  • Rap

• The rabble also vent their rage in words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Words
  • Rage
  • Rabble

• Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier...

  

  Bob Marley
  • Help
  • Way

• Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Bigger

• Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Friend
  • Judge
  • Place

• Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.

  

  Arthur Nersesian
  • Jobs
  • Kill
  • Marriages

• Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Struggle

• It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Love
  • Why
  • Mystery

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.

  

  Eddy Merckx
  • Friends
  • Travel
  • Strange

• We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberation
  • Deliverance

• The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

  

  Nigel Gibson
  • Liberation
  • Disputes
  • Hatreds