Eric Thomas Quotes
You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
Quotes to Explore
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in the housing market. A lot of landlords turn folks away who have an eviction, and a lot of public housing authorities do the same.
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I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.
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'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.
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People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.
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Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
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If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
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I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
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...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
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You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
