Thinking Quotes
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This is really a heck of a mess you left me in.
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Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.
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I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].
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Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?
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I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
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I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
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Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
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I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.
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I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.
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Ever since I was a about seven or eight; I think it was seven. My brother said "I want to start acting," and me and my sister just said, "Oh we'll try it, we'll see." It was just one of those things - we were just like, "Oh, we'll see what happens." So we ended up - all my siblings and me - we ended up just trying it, and I got that one role on In Plain Sight and then we just decided to keep going and see what happens. And then: Hunger Games.
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[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
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I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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Central banks are choosing to increase their gold holdings as a percentage of total reserves. They obviously think there is a reason to do that. It doesn't make sense to back up one currency with a hoard of other paper currencies. There needs to be a real anchor there. I think that central banks are well behind the curve. If you look at the percentage of above-ground gold controlled by central banks, it's historically low. Hence the fact that central banks are trying to increase their holdings. They've got a long way to go to get where they need to be.
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We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that.
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I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.
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Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
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Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!
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It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he Wilkinson does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts
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I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.
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You may forget butlet me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
