Edward Thomson Quotes
Go to Dahomey, Ashantee, Caffraria, Malaisia, — anywhere; search out the rudest people on earth; draw a picture of its vices and cruelties, make it as black as you can, and we will parallel it by pictures of Greece under Pericles and of Rome under Cicero.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Who does understand life?
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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I stood in front of a hundred and one critics at a critic's convention and a critic asked me, 'Miss Cho, isn't it true that your management asked you to lose weight to play the part of yourself in your own TV show?' Gail the producer grabbed the mike from me and said, 'There is no truth in that whatsoever.' I...was so...hungry.
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As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
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You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
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I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.
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A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
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Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.
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The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
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Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
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If I'm not working, I don't even put makeup on.
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My sister and I are pretty dorky, so we drive around at night in her car listening to old Disney songs and feed the coyotes cans of wet cat food, which I'm sure is a terrible idea. Meanwhile, 'Cinderella' and 'Sleeping Beauty' showtunes are playing in the background.
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I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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A lot of the future of search is going to be about pictures instead of keywords. Computer vision technology is going to be a big deal.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
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Go to Dahomey, Ashantee, Caffraria, Malaisia, — anywhere; search out the rudest people on earth; draw a picture of its vices and cruelties, make it as black as you can, and we will parallel it by pictures of Greece under Pericles and of Rome under Cicero.
