Thomas Pablo Croquet (Thomas Mars) Quotes
When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.
Quotes to Explore
-
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
-
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
-
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
-
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
-
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
-
I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
-
I believe that everything has a shelf life.
-
Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
-
It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
-
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
-
I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
-
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
-
You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
-
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
-
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
-
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
-
Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.
-
I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
-
I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
-
There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
-
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
-
I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
-
What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
-
When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.
