Eric Thomas Quotes
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it can have hope.
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I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
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Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.
