Eric Thomas Quotes
The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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I can't act without music very well.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
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Just because you're interested in what jihad is doesn't mean you intend to join.
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Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.
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The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.
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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.
