Cal Thomas Quotes
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.
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If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When you can do that, you can write about people.
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You have seeds of greatness in you! I believe our lives as Christians should be the most exciting because we have the favor and blessings of God on our side!
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
