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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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation.
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I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
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I think that these data present real concerns about how can we use this class in the future. And it certainly says it makes little sense to make it an important part of drug stockpiles for pandemic response.
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I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...
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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.
