Eric Thomas Quotes
You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I wanted to be a Broadway star.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.
