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.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Me
  • Role

• Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Thinking
  • Negative
  • Negativity

• Who does understand life?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Does

• Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Process
  • Being
  • Healing

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Truth
  • True
  • Management

• As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.

  

  Charlie Ebersol
  • Life
  • Long
  • Home

• You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

  

  James Daly

• 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.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Work
  • Together
  • Song

• A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

  

  Agyness Deyn

• 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.

  

  Bryan Brown
  • Live
  • Character
  • Challenge

• You don't have to hit perfect shots all the time here. The variety of shots you get to play, the shots you sometimes have to hit along the ground, it's just a lot of fun to me.

  

  David Duval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Perfect

• I enjoy, always, the feeling of being in front of an audience.

  

  James Corden
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Up
  • Death
  • Risk

• Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

  

  Alain Rene Le Sage
  • Justice

• The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Crush

• I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Time
  • School
  • Rock

• When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Together
  • Imagination

• This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

  

  Fred Astaire
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Search

• 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.

  

  Edward Thomson
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  • Greece
  • Cruelties