Isaiah Thomas Quotes

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Films
  • Chosen

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Eyes
  • Learning
  • Forget

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Sacrifice
  • Point

• I'm normally the least busy person I know.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Person
  • Busy

• They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dead

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • New
  • New York
  • Festival

• 'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Think
  • Always
  • Find

• The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • House

• If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights, and the future of our country.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Country

• The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Excellence

• I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity.” He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. “I can drain faster than you can run.

  

  Kiersten White
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Running

• What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?

  

  Colin Rowe
  • Airplane
  • Balloon
  • Helium

• I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

  

  Paul G. Tremblay
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Daydreamer

• My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Life
  • Basketball
  • Gift