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 am a journalist.
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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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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
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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.
