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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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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Sylvester: What about figuration in a more literal sense?
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We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.
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Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
