Eric Thomas Quotes

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Life
  • Women
  • Free

• My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Greatest

• I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • You
  • Stop
  • Moving

• I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Unconditional

• If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Desk

• I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Time
  • Say
  • Tour

• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Parents
  • Said
  • Times

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Up
  • Day
  • Wife

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Exercise
  • Liberty
  • Married

• You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Trying
  • Changed
  • Really

• The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Talent
  • Stage
  • Results

• You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.

  

  Jane Elliott
  • Society
  • Born
  • Racist

• My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • My Life
  • Stage
  • Changed