Thinking Quotes
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In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
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I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
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You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.
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When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
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I think there's a little bit of Erika Jayne in all of us. There's always an over-the-top performance that's part of everyone's life. Erika Jayne is simply that: glitz, glamour, fun, sex, love and escape. She's all about pushing limits, having a good time and delivering lots of smiles. But really at the end of the day, she wants to have fun.
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I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and Western, which it is still at the moment. There will be more female artists in the mix. I think we'll see art forms explored through different media - the Internet, television, books, even. We'll see art produced in forms and media that we haven't seen yet.
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Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like...and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put in a movie. I think it's all very funny, so.
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I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
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I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.
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I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
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You might think the word "homemade" is just a word we use as a marketing ploy. But what you don't realize is that the staff sleeps here at night. If your tablecloth is wrinkled, that's why.
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Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.
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I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
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My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.
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I've done so many television pilots. I've done eleven I think and I've never had one get picked up. There was never one that I was a guest star on. It's just fascinating, but I don't think it would be fun to be recognized all the time.
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If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.
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Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.
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I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.
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We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.
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On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner with him. I think one of his daughters plays tennis so he knew about me. It was obviously something I was excited to do, and I left the dinner pretty amazed.
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I think the best way to listen to my music is through recording. I would love to be one of those artists where you can go into a coffee shop and watch people pass by and then my music is in their ears. Not necessarily a sensory deprivation thing, but that's cool too. Unfortunately in order to focus on nobody else, you would probably have to go into a dark room and just sit there and listen to it.
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In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.
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I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
