Rob Thomas Quotes

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.

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• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Period

• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Celebrity
  • Pretend
  • Commercial

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

  

  Raekwon
  • Problem
  • Successful
  • Cats

• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Travel

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Process
  • Self
  • Meaning

• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Die

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

  

  Kate Upton
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

  Ice T
  • Same
  • New York
  • Group

• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Age
  • Man

• I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Long
  • Society
  • Optimistic

• When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

  

  Brian Greene
  • School
  • High
  • Math

• I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Comedy
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • May
  • America

• Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Together
  • Fear
  • Comedy