Eric Thomas Quotes
Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about!
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
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I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'
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Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.
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The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.
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Accord, n. Harmony.
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
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It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
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The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
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I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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They tried to put me at tight end once, but I would end up just blocking people when they were actually trying to throw the ball to me. I was probably in middle school. It just didn't stick. Except on running plays.
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Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.
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I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.
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Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit
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Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about!
