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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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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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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It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.
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The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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And if this wasn’t the happiness she had once so fiercely demanded, at least she had come to terms with life. That was probably as close to happiness as you could get.
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I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.
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I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
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If they beat us, they'll probably have the league pretty well in hand.
