Gary L. Thomas Quotes

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

Gary L. Thomas

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• For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • House
  • Attention

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
  • Alive

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • City
  • Amazing

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Man
  • Fine
  • Sounds

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Lost
  • Effort

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Talent
  • Everyone
  • Fifty

• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Great
  • Woman
  • Better

• Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • God
  • You
  • Like

• I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Light
  • Patience

• I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

  

  William James
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Happiness

• The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Attitude

• We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

  

  Aristotle
  • War
  • Peace
  • Order

• It was an extremely trying time for me. Best was still intimate with MacLeod and the others about the laboratory. I was out of the picture entirely. MacLeod had taken over the whole physiological investigation. Collip had taken over the biochemistry. Professor Graham and Dr. Campbell had taken over the whole clinical aspect of the investigation.

  

  Frederick Banting
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Taken

• A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

  

  Gary L. Thomas
  • Attitude
  • Affairs
  • Marriages