Fred Thompson Quotes

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

Fred Thompson

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• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • House
  • Jazz
  • Saturday

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Road
  • Gold
  • Greatest

• The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Way
  • Sense
  • Independence

• It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Difficult
  • Skill
  • Obsession

• I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Perception
  • Video

• I believe that you should move and eat right.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• And this is yet another reminder that the world must unite, we must be together, regardless of nationality, or race, or faith, in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. We can - and will - defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Faith

• I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Son

• Little tornado You and the hurricane Close your eyes and go campaign Make it go faster Baby go faster Make it go twice the speed of you and me

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Eyes
  • Baby

• Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Broken

• I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Character

• Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Science

• Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Home
  • Literature

• I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

  

  Kerris Dorsey
  • Theatre

• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Way
  • Passion

• We are often told by our friends and family members to not go to a particular place owing to some unkown energies that might have existed there, making us form superstitions in our mind.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Friends

• Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.

  

  Philo
  • Wise

• Remembered how I was only a speck after all in uncomfortably limitless space, of no account whatever in the general scheme of things, but with a horrid private capacity for being often and easily hurt; and how specks have a trick of dying, which I in my turn would presently do, and a fresh speck, not nearly so nice, as I hoped and believed, would immediately start up and fill my vacancy, perhaps so exactly my vacancy that it would even wear my gloves and stockings.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Space
  • Hurt
  • Remembered

• You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Human being
  • Bliss
  • Falls

• We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

  

  Fred Thompson