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Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Born: Jan 25, 1960
Day Every People Power Time You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. Nancy Gibbs
Justice Fruit Sometimes Fire Before Revolution Down Rage Sets Birth Soldiers Tyrants Monuments Rises Crowds Student Like Know Looks Arms Himself Surge Tank Line Link Seller Flames Human Maybe Stands Chain Monks Pull
It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely. Nancy Gibbs
Funny Day Change Changed Slowly Until How Realize Things
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about. Nancy Gibbs
Love Hate Sometimes School Devil Seniors Think Those April Kids High High School About Haunted Know House Because Cling End Up Act Hard Who Even Near
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. Nancy Gibbs
Day Value Heroism Everywhere Valued Uncommon Because Normal Sept
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. Nancy Gibbs
Blame People Accidents Driving Auto Act
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience. Nancy Gibbs
War Freedom Peace Facebook Culture Long Narcissism Past Twitter Twitter And Facebook Further Papers Security Pentagon Insight Insights Seem Over Boundless Days Debates Yielded Yields Than Afforded Transparency Fights Sudden Extend
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. Nancy Gibbs
Life War People Farm Earthquake Spent Out Photographer City Most His Camps Refugee Famine Want James Flattened Swallowed Places Avoid Professional Village Professional Life Flood Zone
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. Nancy Gibbs
Conflict Church Values Gender State Relations Once Top Church And State Clash Tossed Had No-One Raw Generational Safe Another Felt Smug Roles Revolutions Stacked Happening Explain Race Race Relations Many Why Bonfire
High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. Nancy Gibbs
Time You Natural People Some People Birth Others Dim High Some Seems Wired Over Talent Were Greatness Wonder Achievers Then Ignite Why Imagine
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. Nancy Gibbs
Love Politics Man Argument Rand He Invitation Most Calling Suspect Interesting Paul
Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. Nancy Gibbs
Power Other Tool Fist Influence Skill
It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. Nancy Gibbs
Luxury Hop Able Paris Venice Always Been Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Plane
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them. Nancy Gibbs
Truth Responders First Out Wreckage Seeking Takes Journalists Modern Wherever Modern Warfare Warfare Them Turmoil Among
War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S. Nancy Gibbs
War Animal Plant Country Some Spreading Waged Being Against Them Across Now Species
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people. Nancy Gibbs
People Problem Internet Long Web Journalists Like Involve Doing Lot Any Going Form Screens Story Asking Page Who
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. Nancy Gibbs
Death Will Control Breath Too Our Sights Pretty Crude Never Come Smells Sting Up Very Close Heat Tiptoe Where Burns Routines
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual. Nancy Gibbs
Spiritual Political Power Cultural Just
If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized. Nancy Gibbs
Time Power Increased Cover Anything Landscape Media
What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way. Nancy Gibbs
Book Water Matter Other Summer Rule Way Sun Broke About Something More Feed Read Learned Makes Get Any Taught Any Other Way Children Them Much Grow
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take. Nancy Gibbs
You Space Pour Changes Out Give Shape Take Container Go Surprise Lot Liquid May Where Children Fills
Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. Nancy Gibbs
Obama Adult Like Talked Least Us Professor
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children. Nancy Gibbs
Family You Predict Crisis Parent Hit Children Whether Elderly Might Your
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it. Nancy Gibbs
You Presidency President Interview About Write Written Exciting Know Obviously Lot Get
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about. Nancy Gibbs
Time You Grateful Broad About Write Reach Been Mandate Anything Interested
I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time. Nancy Gibbs
Time You People Competition Other Else Everything Everything Else Kid Magazines Cable Attention Feel Like Print Report Just Want Newspapers Your Games Play Card Things Compete Competing
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine. Nancy Gibbs
You Magazine Blog Up Hold
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