Eric Thomas Quotes

I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

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• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Color

• If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

  

  Karen Mills
  • World
  • Small
  • Grow

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Succeed

• My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Man
  • Simple

• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Together
  • Help
  • Game

• At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Why
  • Age
  • Parents

• I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

  

  Babyface
  • Time
  • Work
  • Artist

• I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

  

  Verite
  • Small
  • Lost
  • Day

• I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Problems
  • News
  • Move

• I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Business
  • Right
  • Labor

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Love
  • Revolution

• My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.

  

  Nyle DiMarco
  • Passion
  • Young
  • Inspiring

• I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Night
  • Born
  • Owl

• No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Chance
  • Born
  • Ability

• I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Born
  • Trouble
  • Kid