Claude AnShin Thomas Quotes

My relationship with Andrew JiYu Weiss has always been inspirational, his support and guidance always beneficial. My hope is that those who read this book will benefit as much as I have from meeting and knowing him.

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• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Service

• To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Style
  • Yourself

• I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Cool

• I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Interested

• I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Cancer

• When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • God
  • Friend

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Charity

• To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Me
  • Size

• My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Plan

• I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Way
  • Say
  • Girly

• Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Lost
  • Decision

• With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

  

  John Burnside
  • Music

• Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

  

  Dirk Kempthorne
  • Children
  • Justice
  • Confidence

• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Son

• I believe we accomplished a lot of good things while I was in office. We maintained a very good working relationship with both Republicans and Democrats during my tenure. Consequently, we had a very high batting average in dealing with Congress on some very controversial issues. Plus, we kept our nation at peace, we obeyed the law, and we told the truth.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Relationship
  • Republicans
  • Democrats

• The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Water
  • Drinking

• My relationship with Andrew JiYu Weiss has always been inspirational, his support and guidance always beneficial. My hope is that those who read this book will benefit as much as I have from meeting and knowing him.

  

  Claude AnShin Thomas
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