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Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.


Bennie Thompson

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