J. Anderson Thomson Quotes

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Humor

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Positive

• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Problem
  • Eat
  • Too Much

• I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Felt

• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Say

• I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Country
  • Years

• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Words
  • Nothing

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Thought
  • Problems

• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I don't like guys who overdress. And I don't like guys who try too hard.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Like
  • Hard
  • Try

• In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Nostalgia

• I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• ...So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and love well, bring art to this place. And make this world better for the whole human race.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Friends
  • Choices
  • Voices

• We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Good
  • Fact
  • Englishmen

• A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it...

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Mistake
  • Fail
  • Error

• The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Work
  • School
  • She

• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

  

  J. Anderson Thomson
  • Kill
  • Fact
  • Error