Eric Thomas Quotes
I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I take my work seriously.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.
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I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.
