Eric Thomas Quotes

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

Eric Thomas

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• I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Country
  • Me
  • Him

• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Kind
  • Project
  • Days

• Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • Moving
  • Dance

• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Desire

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Small

• My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Say

• Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Cheat

• When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Boy
  • Own
  • Little

• We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Game
  • Change

• It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • May
  • Matter
  • Now

• I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Focus
  • Media
  • Gossip

• When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Trust
  • Leadership

• Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • You
  • Happen

• The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Lost

• People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • People
  • Period

• My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Success
  • Road
  • Possess

• Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Success
  • Need
  • Apathy