Lea Thompson Quotes
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
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Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
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I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
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I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.
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I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?
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There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
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I'm totally, totally into old Vegas.
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Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.
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My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show.' My job was to parody TV reporters and political pundits. As a result, I was often invited onto cable news shows as comic relief.
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I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.
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I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.
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In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
