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

• Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Shine
  • Sunglasses

• 'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812 section - American theater and plays. This is where I first read Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' and was transfixed. I remember staring into space for what seemed an eternity after reading Linda Loman's final speech.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Remember
  • American
  • Death

• 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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