Dave Thomas Quotes

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

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• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Power

• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ignore

• Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Drama
  • Plan
  • Ever

• We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

  

  Quintilian
  • Alone
  • Desire
  • Loved

• I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hand
  • Still
  • Target

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blessed
  • Opportunities
  • Been

• He who is contented is rich.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Rich
  • He
  • Contented

• What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Good
  • Power
  • Interesting

• But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Another
  • Vegetarian
  • Guess

• Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.

  

  John Cena
  • Respect
  • Competition

• Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.

  

  Joao Lourenco
  • Why

• As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Director

• It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Value

• When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • Real
  • History
  • Stop

• It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

  

  Dave Thomas