Isaiah Thomas Quotes
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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Africa is the future.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
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Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
