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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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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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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
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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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I don't mind playing or watching a movie or sitting down.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.
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'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.
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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.
