Mike Thompson Quotes

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Other
  • Polite

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• What could be better than working with people you love?

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Love
  • Better

• International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Important
  • Peace

• With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

  

  Walter Brennan
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

  

  Kesha
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• I learned at 'SNL' that it's a bummer to bum people out.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People

• I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Winning

• I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • People
  • Pretty

• My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

  

  Kenan Thompson

• For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • May

• Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • Music
  • Desire
  • Appreciation

• Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

  

  Mike Thompson
  • People
  • Forget
  • Learned