Thomas Pablo Croquet (Thomas Mars) Quotes

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Long
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• I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
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  • Good
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• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
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• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Life
  • Try

• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Different
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• Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.

  

  Vic Willis
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• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Enjoy

• All the things that are in the past are in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • Things
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• But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

  

  Ted Nelson
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• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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• To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Family
  • Me

• If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
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  • Work
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• If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
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  • Persistence
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• When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Faith
  • Rest
  • Picture

• We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.

  

  Mike Einziger Incubus
  • Write
  • Songs
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• In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • Songs
  • France
  • Apple