Eric Thomas Quotes
I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)
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I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.
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Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
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On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
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I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
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I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.
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I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.
