Thinking Quotes
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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
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Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
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We, Autolux band, write in very different ways; sometimes we play with the band and write music first and then form vocal parts and lyrics. Or I'll find some music, or a guitar part or something, and I'll just write an entire sketch of an idea from that. So I think things have always been that way, it's just that this time around we had some more obstacles off and on all the time.
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I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.
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Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
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We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.
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Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
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Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.
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I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
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I was thinking when he hit his 500th home run about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.
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I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.
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I had the nightmare when I was like nine or ten or something, I always remembered pieces of that nightmare, the feeling from it. I've always wanted to make a horror film and so I always kept thinking about that nightmare.
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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
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For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
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Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
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The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
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I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.
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We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
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I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end.
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I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.
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Never say never. For the right reason, over the years I've been auctioning off masks for charity and it's always for a good cause. I think you would regret it if you just sold it for money.
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I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.
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Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them.
