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Nancy Gibbs Quotes

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

Nancy Gibbs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1960

Topics

Intelligence People Evidence Whatever

We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.

Jimmy Haynes

Time Play Hard Out Going Get

Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

Jeff Vandermeer

People Impossible Trying Sometimes

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

Ruth Rendell

Hope Time Long You Nobody Long Time

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

Mo Farah

Gold Double Still Minutes Running

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

LL Cool J

Flying Insurance Want My Own Out

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Joseph Pulitzer

Work Hard Work Style Day Words Way

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

Jon Voight

Decision Talent Thought Learn You

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Johnny Depp

Myself Guitar Room Puberty Vague

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

Brent Scowcroft

Lie Roots Find Terrorism Out Where

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

Annie Jacobsen

Thought 1950s Would Who Espionage

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Progress Ideas Basic Fundamental

I'm very grateful for what I have. I'm old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That's not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn't been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I'm not overwhelmed by regret.

Thomas McGuane

Grateful Selfish Regret Think Wish