Lauren Gibbs Quotes
I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I love all things Christmas.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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Excellence always sells.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
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I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.
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One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
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I'm not much of a gym rat; I'd rather be running, but if it enables me to run faster, then I guess I can tough it out.
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I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised.
