Evan Thomas Quotes

A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

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• I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Woman
  • Fart

• 'ReadyMade''s first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • First
  • Three
  • Odd

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Next
  • Still
  • Dreaming

• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • School
  • Serious
  • Place

• The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Trouble
  • Year
  • Artists

• Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • Irish
  • Back

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Me
  • Never
  • Jail

• Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Decision

• I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

  

  James Wolk
  • Work

• I eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

  

  Colbie Caillat

• You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

  

  James Daly

• The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Done
  • Today
  • Night

• Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

  

  Bessie Head
  • May
  • Home
  • Earth

• When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Week

• I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Different
  • See

• Fifth grade was when I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit;' it was the energy, and his voice. I liked 311 and Sublime, too, though that might have been a little after that.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Energy
  • Teen

• No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Walking
  • Revolution
  • Lynching

• A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Advice
  • Leader
  • Judgment