Thinking Quotes
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I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
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I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
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I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.
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But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
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Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with lots of feathers. That image has stayed in some people's minds. Many think we're either visionaries, `noble savages,' squaw drudges or tragic alcoholics. We're very rarely depicted as real people who have greater tenacity in terms of trying to hang on to our culture and values system than most people.
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
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And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.
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Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.
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I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
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I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
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Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.
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No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.”
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I think the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who completely independent. The most beautiful thing about Frank was that he was completely in the moment and present and eternally creative.
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I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
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When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.
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I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.
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I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
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The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.
