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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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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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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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. When they had all come Tarzan turned toward them. 'I am Tarzan,' he cried. 'I am a great killer. Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware.'
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
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You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.
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Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money and investment decisions away from proven moneymakers (read: job producers) to Washington amateurs. In both cases, American's lose.
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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.
