Bob Thomason Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
-
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
-
Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
-
Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
-
I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
-
If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
-
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
-
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
-
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
-
Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
-
Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
-
That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
-
I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
-
And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
-
When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
-
It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating…Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun
-
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
-
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-
If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
-
When you lack the awareness of being God you make everything impossible. Wow! Stop living in your humanity and start living in your divinity.
-
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
-
You've got a friend in God and He's the most powerful entity the universe has ever known, the One that created it all. So, you are strong with Jesus by your side, if you just recognize it and open your heart to Him.
-
I like his heart, his effort, his athletic ability and his activeness.
