F. Thomson Leighton Quotes

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• Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

  

  Halsey
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Hope

• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Job
  • Day

• There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Music
  • House
  • Dance

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Problems

• Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Hate
  • Doctors
  • Medication

• We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • World
  • Live
  • Risk

• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Anger

• Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Film

• If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Man
  • Path

• The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

  

  Ovid
  • Often
  • Roses
  • Sharp

• My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Future
  • Society
  • Past

• Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Future
  • Control
  • Risk

• It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

  

  Iris Chang
  • History
  • Difficult
  • Very

• I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • America
  • Color

• My first impression was that this guy [Ndamukong Suh] is very confident. For him to be so young, I was kind of caught off guard by how confident he was. But then my first time seeing him on the field, pretty much solidified why he was so confident. He's obviously a monster.

  

  Nate Burleson
  • Guy
  • Impression
  • Confident

• I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works. I mean, a lot of the kids I know are really politically involved. They really care about politics. I think we're going to have an incredible impact on how politics end up shaking this country.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• We're confident we can get a rate that works in the 2006 budget.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • Works
  • Confident
  • Budget