Eric Thomas Quotes
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
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It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
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You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.
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You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
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