Rob Thomas Quotes
Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.
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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.
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I had this question asked to me recently when I was buying food for my wife and brother in law and I would like to ask it to other people: Why is it that most celebrities pay with cash as opposed to credit card? Is it so that they are not recognized right away and want to be more unassuming?
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Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
