Bob Thomason Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.
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Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
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Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.
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Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
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When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.
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Someone asked me, 'How long do you intend to do 'Deadwood'?' And part of my sociopathology, I say, 'Well, when does my contract run out?' And I realize my contract ran out at the end of four seasons.
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Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
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The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.
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If they beat us, they'll probably have the league pretty well in hand.
