Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.
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In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.
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I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
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Dogs are a window on the natural world.
