Mike Thompson Quotes

Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

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• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Patterns

• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Myself

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Love
  • Know
  • Alone

• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Powerful

• I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Power

• Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Ends

• Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Player
  • Sorry
  • Tennis

• All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Yoga
  • Flames
  • Divinity

• Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.

  

  Val Doonican
  • Girl
  • Golf

• As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life

• The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Country
  • Patient
  • Dispute

• For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.

  

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft
  • Reason
  • Couple
  • Special

• Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

  

  Van Jones
  • Should
  • Mad
  • Outrage

• A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Shoes

• Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Art
  • Should
  • Simplicity

• Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

  

  Mike Thompson
  • Should
  • Missions
  • Diplomacy