Charissa Thompson (Charissa Jean Thompson) Quotes
I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.
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'Move Bitch!'
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I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.
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You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
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One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
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I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.
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For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
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I'm a little different from all those conservation types.
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I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.
