"I come from a family of teachers, and……" — Nancy Gibbs
"I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance."
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104 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs has 104 quotes on this site.
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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
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If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us…
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who…
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the…
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on…
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You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him…
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Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton…
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Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and…
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just…
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In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version…
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You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
— Dario Argento
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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