Fred Thompson Quotes
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.
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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
