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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The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
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People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.
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I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.
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I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.
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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
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My music is definitely considered the kind of music you play in your car, that gets you from Point A to Point B. So, I understand how important it is to press up my music and give it out, hand-to-hand, just as much as it is to give it out on the Internet.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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If they beat us, they'll probably have the league pretty well in hand.
