Rob Thomas Quotes
Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
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I can't just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.
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Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.
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Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.
