Rob Thomas Quotes
Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.
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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
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I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
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Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
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There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
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Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
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I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
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I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.
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Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.
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Right now the only thing that I am concerned with in my life is being an artist … I had to suppress it for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.
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For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
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I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
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Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
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Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.
