Debi Thomas Quotes

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Debi Thomas

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DreamsTimePeopleStupidImpossible

Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.

Jim James

JoyPeopleMovingStartSoundHall

I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

Jim Parrack

MeBackGoTalkLittleBecause

Democracy is not what we don't want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a set of affirmative values by which we can move forward. If we cannot insert our values into our vote, and our vote is simply against what we fear most, then we are a ship lost at sea.

Jill Stein

FearSeaDemocracyForwardShip

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

John Maynard Keynes

LifeHeartDayReligionProblems

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

Robert Rodriguez

ChildrenSpeakTelevisionFindOwn

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.

Mavis Staples

FamilyWorldYouNobodyAlwaysUs

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

Michael Steele

WindCongressMoreNeedUpAllow

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

Donovan

WriteSearchingAlwaysDifferent

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

Colm Meaney

CharacterStoryLookBackGoSee

I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

Bonnie Langford

FreedomCatsMistakesMeTryingWay

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.

Willie Geist

WorkWisdomJobBlueIdeasYou

When I'm a little bit upset, my eyebrow goes up, and that is a trait that my beautiful mother passed down to me. We always knew in the house: 'Mommy's upset; her eyebrow just went up.'

Selenis Leyva

MotherBeautifulMeHouseDownUp

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