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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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 happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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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 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 never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.
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My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
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The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
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I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.
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Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.
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If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!
