Rob Thomas Quotes
Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I write novels and other things.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
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I do sarcasm really poorly.
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You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.
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You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
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Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.
