Caitlin Thomas Quotes
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
Quotes to Explore
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.
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The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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You try to make them comfortable so they can do what they're best at, and make them shine. You always want to make an actor shine. I'm of the mind that there's no one - you, your mother, anyone, that if in the right place at the right time in the right context, couldn't shine in a movie. And so if it means, "Oh, I have to make them uncomfortable," then whatever it takes to get what I need up onscreen. It's all in the service of the story.
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Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are...
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If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
