Andrew Thomas Quotes

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Connection
  • Mystery
  • Between

• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Society
  • Respect

• Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Copy

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• Custom is second nature.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Second
  • Custom

• In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hair
  • Thought
  • Red

• When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • School
  • Remember
  • Problems

• I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Because
  • Relationships

• Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • World
  • Bridge

• I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Good
  • Compassion
  • Grateful

• You don't know where life takes you.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• 'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Up
  • Movie
  • High

• I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Experience
  • Thankful
  • Taught

• Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Past

• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Building
  • Investment

• It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • World
  • Think
  • Cool

• I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

  

  Marian Keyes

• Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Nevermind

• The thing that concerns me more than anything is when anybody becomes closed off and exclusive of other people's ideas. All of our brains are in the same mode of searching when trying to understand reality, and when we come to a belief system that makes sense to us we hold it strongly, whether it's an atheist view, or a Christian view, or a Muslim view, whatever, then it's very hard to let go and I think it's so important to try to foster dialogue.

  

  Andrew B. Newberg
  • Reality
  • Brain
  • Ideas

• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Eating
  • Collections
  • Verses

• While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

  

  Andrew Thomas