Charissa Thompson (Charissa Jean Thompson) Quotes

I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

Charissa Thompson

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• I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Want
  • Me

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Know
  • Violence
  • Television

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Running

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Choose

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• People always give me styling products and stuff.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Always
  • Stuff

• A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Family
  • Education
  • Daughter

• I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Religion
  • English
  • Literature

• I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Strong

• Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Water
  • Skin
  • Cells

• Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • May

• We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mistake

• If you put the collections together, whether it's Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they're never called that. They're always called 'sportswear' or 'high-end' or 'luxury.' I feel like I'm tossed into that streetwear category so that I don't exist in this space.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Together
  • High
  • Space

• I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Cooking

• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Real
  • Action
  • Value

• He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Advantage
  • Injuries
  • Remedies

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum's collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest of the world than any other country, for longer.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • World
  • Long
  • Country

• I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • Sports
  • Natural
  • Common