Fred Thompson Quotes
And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
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My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
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It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
