Lea Thompson Quotes

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Done
  • Look

• Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Government
  • Morning
  • Evening

• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
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  • Ideas

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
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• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
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  • Success

• I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.

  

  Ted Deutch
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  • House
  • Community

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
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  • Relationship

• In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Children
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  • Worry

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
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  • Great

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
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• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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  • World
  • Trying

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Great
  • Music
  • Done

• As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • World
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  • Think

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Want
  • Wisdom

• Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because it also challenges social stability, and stories, as a result, are often told much more simply.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • People
  • Done
  • Design

• Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • God
  • Try
  • Thank God

• I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

  

  Lea Thompson
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