Richard Thompson quote: "Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world."

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Borderin...
RICHARD THOMPSON

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can...
RICHARD THOMPSON

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And...
RICHARD THOMPSON

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implicatio...
RICHARD THOMPSON

You've got the east-west problem because only three corridors go that way. I've heard anything betwe...
RICHARD THOMPSON

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publ...
RICHARD THOMPSON

It's hard to tell where one tour ends and the next begins. I'm generally touring most of any year. I...
RICHARD THOMPSON

This is a global problem. Eight million tons of litter enter the oceans every day -- most is plastic...
RICHARD THOMPSON

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in partic...
RICHARD THOMPSON

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.
RICHARD THOMPSON

Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things so...
RICHARD THOMPSON

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, be...
RICHARD THOMPSON

I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather to...
RICHARD THOMPSON

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.
RICHARD THOMPSON

sound like they're being sung to just one person.
RICHARD THOMPSON

Somehow that came out sounding better than we would have thought,
RICHARD THOMPSON

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.
RICHARD THOMPSON

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
RICHARD THOMPSON

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. Th...
RICHARD THOMPSON

Lenders now feel the agenda has changed, with inquiries looking at virtually every source of income....
RICHARD THOMPSON

We're creating our own content because it's very important to be out there with marketing that peopl...
RICHARD THOMPSON

They can't understand what you're doing and why you're saying what you're saying, and that might be ...
RICHARD THOMPSON

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like,...
RICHARD THOMPSON

This is the kind of surveillance system that really allows us to first identify how far the disease ...
RICHARD THOMPSON

Probably 5% of the time you understand.
RICHARD THOMPSON

It is possible that the two viruses could mingle in one cell and from that single cell out would eme...
RICHARD THOMPSON

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.
RICHARD THOMPSON

At this point, we probably have 70 percent of our regulatory signs back up, and probably 30 percent ...
RICHARD THOMPSON

We're out to change America, ... Cats are hiding in homes and dogs are out on the street causing tro...
RICHARD THOMPSON

There's not much that we can do. It's out of our hands.
RICHARD THOMPSON

A point each was probably a fair result, although I think we just edged it. Their goalkeeper played ...
RICHARD THOMPSON

We got a lot of input from all of our cat friends, ... We wanted to be sure that tabby cats and Pers...
RICHARD THOMPSON

There are two worldviews that are in conflict. I do feel that even though Christians are 86 percent ...
RICHARD THOMPSON

I think we stand a good chance of making some genuine progress. There's a range of things I think ca...
RICHARD THOMPSON

All the Dover school board did was allow students to get a glimpse of a controversy that is really b...
RICHARD THOMPSON

Compromises have been made -- this is not being taught in class. We don't advocate teaching intellig...
RICHARD THOMPSON

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Some...
RICHARD THOMPSON

It's an honor to have this job and, to me, the greatest thing is to be up on stage and to feel that ...
RICHARD THOMPSON

Art was my favorite subject at school, and to me the Who were like an art project.
RICHARD THOMPSON

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but...
TESSA THOMPSON

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
LEA THOMPSON

When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that,...
LINDA THOMPSON

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
LINDA THOMPSON

I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum ja...
LINDA THOMPSON

Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he lov...
LINDA THOMPSON

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, fa...
LINDA THOMPSON

We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that...
LINDA THOMPSON

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace...
LINDA THOMPSON

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a l...
KATE THOMPSON

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of...
KATE THOMPSON

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t...
KATE THOMPSON

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good ...
KATE THOMPSON

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
KATE THOMPSON

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w...
KATE THOMPSON

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philos...
KATE THOMPSON

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are s...
KATE THOMPSON

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolte...
KATE THOMPSON

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at En...
KATE THOMPSON

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at...
KATE THOMPSON

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he ...
KATE THOMPSON

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
KATE THOMPSON

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in...
KATE THOMPSON

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give...
KATE THOMPSON

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very int...
KATE THOMPSON

When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Citi...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of br...
SCOTT THOMPSON

I will probably hear more in the next day or so. His last tests showed an improvement and he has inc...
ALAN THOMPSON

This job is well-suited for people who want to work hard. Some of the people who work here just love...
ALAN THOMPSON

I'm taking video evidence of a number of incidents over the last two years which happened at the Oly...
ALAN THOMPSON

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Congratulations on holding the line this year, ... We appreciate the efforts your department has had...
ALAN THOMPSON

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.
ALAN THOMPSON

I think some of the guys prepared poorly,
ALAN THOMPSON

Had he been in a different era, he would have been the one, and this time he has been able to stand ...
ALAN THOMPSON

And they have got an ability to coach and an ability to swim. Even in the old days - whatever they w...
ALAN THOMPSON

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletic...
DALEY THOMPSON

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
DALEY THOMPSON

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
DALEY THOMPSON

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be th...
DALEY THOMPSON

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after...
DALEY THOMPSON

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to cat...
DALEY THOMPSON

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
DALEY THOMPSON

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power ...
DALEY THOMPSON

I am only about winning and getting better.
DALEY THOMPSON

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
DALEY THOMPSON

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my care...
DALEY THOMPSON

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything...
DALEY THOMPSON

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
DALEY THOMPSON

If you're not in it you can't win it.
DALEY THOMPSON

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don'...
DALEY THOMPSON

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really w...
DALEY THOMPSON

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you ...
DALEY THOMPSON

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon r...
DALEY THOMPSON

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't affo...
DALEY THOMPSON

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
DALEY THOMPSON

I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur...
DALEY THOMPSON

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit sla...
DALEY THOMPSON

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to im...
DALEY THOMPSON

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - a...
DALEY THOMPSON

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
DALEY THOMPSON

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now ...
LEA THOMPSON

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. THOMPSON

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again...
CRAIG THOMPSON

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems ver...
SADA THOMPSON

I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON

It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men.
AARON THOMPSON

Defense is key, it comes first.
AARON THOMPSON

It's the right thing to do. We're doing what any responsible institution would do.
AARON THOMPSON

It's safe to say the institutions won't be up and running for a while. They'll be here for at least ...
AARON THOMPSON

It's just interaction with your customer, if he's buying you a drink, that should be OK, and you kno...
AARON THOMPSON

[To meet that need, said Aaron Thompson of the Orange County Red Cross, the school board has turned ...
AARON THOMPSON

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a c...
TESSA THOMPSON

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON

We have become a little Main Street. These shops are out there every single Saturday selling mostly ...
ALLEN THOMPSON

This community has been outstanding. There are a lot of differences of opinion in this community, bu...
ALLEN THOMPSON

We've become the place where people come to meet. Because we are in the center of town, people will ...
ALLEN THOMPSON

It has been very, very exciting. It has really grown.
ALLEN THOMPSON

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
EMMA THOMPSON

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
ROY THOMPSON

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the sha...
LEWIS THOMPSON

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flow...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in mot...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...
EMMA THOMPSON

I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers Round the day's dead sanctities....
FRANCIS THOMPSON

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
FRED THOMPSON

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably...
TEDDY THOMPSON

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving...
KATE THOMPSON

I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last te...
TEDDY THOMPSON

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - wh...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of th...
LINDA THOMPSON

My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which...
TEDDY THOMPSON

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not t...
EMMA THOMPSON

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
FRED THOMPSON

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my...
DALEY THOMPSON

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old ...
LEA THOMPSON

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
FRED THOMPSON

I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding i...
LEA THOMPSON

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At th...
LEXI THOMPSON

It's cool. It's reverse modeling really. Instead of taking a structure and finding out what vibratio...
BARBARA THOMPSON

[University of Colorado's Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) will measure spectral ene...
BARBARA THOMPSON

LWS is kind of science with an edge.
BARBARA THOMPSON

This is going to make our neighborhood very isolated. The decision is very disappointing.
BARBARA THOMPSON

decided to let it go.
BARBARA THOMPSON

It will help in lifting morale on campus. I don't think any university can stay competitive without ...
BARBARA THOMPSON

Just a couple times a year we'll have eclipses that are not much more than an hour. We can stand it.
BARBARA THOMPSON

We love the bingo. You tell them the people on Social Security will sit at home in a rocker and die ...
BARBARA THOMPSON

I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Grow...
LEXI THOMPSON

We had a lot of kids over there, but they were there legally. They were in the band, cheerleaders an...
BECKY THOMPSON

There are things in your life - nobody's perfect, of course - things you just need to cleanse.
BECKY THOMPSON

You need to release, to humble yourself, and realize that you have things in your life you need to t...
BECKY THOMPSON

I learned that it's hard to work in the Army. My dad wanted me to tell him that he's a big hero to m...
BECKY THOMPSON

Our major concern is the safety of our students. We hope traffic flows slowly and smoothly.
BECKY THOMPSON

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so s...
EMMA THOMPSON

We needed to play good and win or we'd go home. We're going to have to turn around and do it again t...
BEAU THOMPSON

Kevin did a good job. We also did well inside. We got good games from Cory Jordan and Jared King not...
BEAU THOMPSON

(Davis) played well for us while he was in there. He got two cheapies. He's been really good for us ...
BEAU THOMPSON

I guess all you can say is they outplayed us in every aspect of the game. We did a terrible job pass...
BEAU THOMPSON

I thought he dominated the game with his speed, defensively. Overall, except for a little lull at th...
BEAU THOMPSON

We played good the last 4 minutes of the game. That's really what it took for us to win this one.
BEAU THOMPSON

We gave up too many points in this tournament and we've got to get better defensively. This was a qu...
BEAU THOMPSON

Cory was very efficient with what he did down at the post. He's capable of that night in and night o...
BEAU THOMPSON

We get a technical foul that's very deserving. That was the end of the game. After the technical we ...
BEAU THOMPSON

We played pretty well the second half. We got a good game from Lee Turner. He rebounded the basketba...
BEAU THOMPSON

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their ...
BENNIE THOMPSON

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, th...
FRED THOMPSON

How can the government say it is serious about reconstructing the Gulf Coast and edge out small and ...
BENNIE THOMPSON

[Thompson said, for example, that oil pipelines in the Southeast have been identified by DHS as crit...
BENNIE THOMPSON

This is the best run, cleanest shelter that I have seen!
BENNIE THOMPSON

Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world.

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