Paul Thomson Quotes

Can you imagine having a day like today with jet lag? We've done it before and I wouldn't like to again.

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Life
  • Normal

• I started at the top and worked my way down.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Way
  • Down
  • Top

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Long
  • Country
  • Love

• Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Great
  • Health
  • Value

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Want
  • Conflict
  • Solution

• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Man
  • Thought

• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Think
  • Car

• I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Great
  • Job
  • Action

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Success
  • Revenge
  • Success Is

• Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Sometimes
  • Same
  • Criticism

• I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Look

• I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • May
  • Model
  • Clever

• Can you imagine having a day like today with jet lag? We've done it before and I wouldn't like to again.

  

  Paul Thomson Franz Ferdinand
  • Day
  • Imagine
  • Lag