Lea Thompson Quotes

I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online.

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Music
  • Think
  • Example

• I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Art
  • Style
  • Characters

• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Self

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• There's always a source for humor.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Always
  • Humor
  • Source

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Help
  • Government

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Everyone

• Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Act
  • Many
  • Forming

• I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Champion
  • I Can

• I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

  

  Maluma
  • Think
  • Song
  • Break

• You have to follow that next step.

  

  Laura Moser
  • You
  • Step
  • Follow

• As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Company
  • Boss
  • Racing

• I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Age
  • Career
  • Science

• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Question
  • Morning

• My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Biology

• A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Relationship

• When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Friends
  • Law
  • Brother

• I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama

• I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Represent

• I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Brother