Eric Thomas Quotes
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.
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I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.
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When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!
