W. I. Thomas Quotes
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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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.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
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Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.
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Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.
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The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
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It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
