Lea Thompson Quotes

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

Lea Thompson

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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.'

  

  Edith Stein
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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.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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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.

  

  Veerappa Moily
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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.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
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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.

  

  Ben Chandler
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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.

  

  Jesse Williams
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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.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

• I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

  

  Katherine Anne Porter
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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.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
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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?

  

  Amy Bloom
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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.

  

  Brad Garrett
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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.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
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• When you have a different mother, you want to be in her world. Because in mine, I didn't feel like I fit in.

  

  Patty Smyth
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• Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.

  

  Joel Edgerton
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• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Girl
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• The perfection of rottenness.

  

  William James
  • Perfection
  • Sarcastic

• In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Sarcastic