Eric Thomas Quotes
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
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I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.
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To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
