Thinking Quotes
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It is so important that we get children thinking about these issues at an early age. It won't be long before those kids grow up. They'll be our new leaders.
Charles Alfred Leavell
The Allman Brothers Band
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If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.
Charlie Daniels
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When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.
Paul Auster
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I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?
Chris Matthews
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It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.
Jim Gaffigan
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When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?
Curtis Hanson
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
William Dean Howells
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When a corporation goes into the marketplace to buy back its own stock, it means management thinks the stock is undervalued. This is a smart time to buy.
Nancy Dunnan
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We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term.
Alan Mulally
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
Erykah Badu
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There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.
Lester Holt
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No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.
Madeleine Albright
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It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.
E. Nesbit
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I don't think it's anything real bad. But he had a little twinge there.
Joe Gibbs
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I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
Katherine Heigl
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It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
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Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
Quentin Tarantino
