John W. Thompson Quotes
My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Once a week, someone tells me to toughen up, get a sharper edge. I don't do that.
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The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
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I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
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Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.
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It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.
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My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.
