Irwin Thomas Quotes
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.
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When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
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I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
