NANCY DUBUC – American business leader, media company CEO – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
DUBUC, Nancy
Nancy Jean Dubuc, Nancy DuBuc
Born: 10 December 1968
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
American business leader; media company CEO
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CitationContextSource LinkCitation “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” ~Max Eastman, American author & editor Enjoyment of Laughter (1936) New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936, 8th printing, p. 36; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Eastman, sharing his ‘amateur opinion’ that ‘apes have a rudimentary sense of humor.']: “He has at least enough feeling for a playful trick to understand that he has been teased and not attacked. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” (pp. 36-37) Source Link Source
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.” ~Mark Edmundson, American author & educator Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education (2013) New York, NY: Bloomsbury, p. 66 Context Extended excerpt [Non-fiction.]: “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go. Randall Jarrell once said that if he were a rich man, he would pay money to teach poetry to students. (I would, too, for what
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CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert, American author Committed: A Love Story (2010) London: Bloomsbury, 2010, p. 101 Context Extended excerpt [From chapter four – ‘Marriage and Infatuation’]: “The problem with infatuation, of course, is that it’s a mirage, a trick of the eye – indeed, a trick of the endocrine system. Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job. When you become infatuated with somebody, you’re not
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” ~Jack Gilbert, American author “The Abandoned Valley” (11 March 2005) Refusing Heaven, New York: Borzoi Book, 13 March 2007 edition, p. 25 Context Extended excerpt [Full poem cited.]: “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” (p. 25)
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CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.” ~Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive Talking Straight (1988) with Sonny Kleinfeld, New York, NY: Bantam Books, July 1989 edition, p. 236 Context Extended excerpt: [From a book of autobiographical essays & thoughts on various topics. Quoted excerpt appears in chapter XIII: “The School Crisis”] “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. We’ve got to get cracking on education – at all levels – or we’ll get run over by the Far East.” (p. 232) Source ISBN
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