Debi Thomas Quotes
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.
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'Girls' is one of my favorite shows of all time. One of the things I love about Lena Dunham and Jenji Kohan and Shonda Rhimes is that they're all willing to show complex, amazing women.
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I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
