Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

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• Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Help
  • Me
  • Said

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Think

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Purpose
  • Best
  • Picture

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Together
  • Rich

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Something
  • Global Warming

• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Trust
  • Last
  • Trusted

• Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • May
  • She
  • Support

• We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Generation
  • Prosperity

• Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Chaos

• 'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Star

• Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Great
  • Art
  • Inspired

• Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.

  

  James Lankford

• There was a scene in 'Qubool Hai' where Asad shoots his father. After shooting for it, I was drained completely. At times, my character's mood gets very depressing. Post shoot, it takes a good half hour to get out of character, to leave Asad behind.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Good
  • Character
  • Father

• The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli

• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas