Eric Thomas Quotes

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

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• With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Day
  • Dance
  • Sunday

• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Father
  • Trust
  • Husband

• The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Beauty

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Freedom
  • Explore
  • Tradition

• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kids

• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Word of mouth is everything.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Everything
  • Word
  • Mouth

• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

  

  Rain
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Long
  • Struggle

• First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Time

• I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Good
  • Different
  • Focus

• SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• I could never imagine a movie being made from the way I had structured the book, it still feels miraculous that we made it this way without compromising the story, but everything has felt miraculous since I got that first phone call saying Martin Scorsese wants to make a movie out of 'Hugo.' I recognize how lucky I am.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Book
  • Movie

• I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• There is nothing else to do in my life... I have no family, relationships - this is the only thing that I do.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Life
  • Family
  • Relationships

• We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

  

  James Stewart
  • Diamond
  • Gangster

• Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Shine
  • Diamond
  • Cut