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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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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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
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I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
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As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
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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.
