Thinking Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Burt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lady Gaga
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Music stops you from thinking.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Weir
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Meghan Daum
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hal Elrod
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Tracy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		No, it's that fun we have. It's real. I'm so thankful they cast good, funny, interesting, warm, kind people in “Castle”, because we blend very well together. At this point it's like a family. We help each other. I constantly ask them: “What's funnier: if I do this or I do that?” And I don't think we care anymore about looking weak or unprofessional. We all just want the best for each other and for the show.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Seamus Dever
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karl Lagerfeld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Earl Nightingale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony Green
			
			
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		Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elif Batuman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nicholas Sparks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Weld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Makepeace Thackeray
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ryan Adams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Gabriel
			
			
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		People always think that when they grew up it was better. The people who went to Studio 54 say, "Oh, this is nothing!" or "The Limelight is nothing. In our day it was much better." But I mean, it's always great. It's always fresh to the kids. And to me, you've just got to make it happen. You can't be a downer and say, "This is nothing like the roaring 20s."
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amanda Lepore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry Rollins
			
			
				Black Flag