Thinking Quotes
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I do think you need different primary kinds of love at different points in your life.
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Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.
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Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.
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I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.
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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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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying about what he has to do.
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I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"
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I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.
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But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
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Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
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I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.
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Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?
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I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.
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You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
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How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?
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Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that.
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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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There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.
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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.
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When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.
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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
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Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
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If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'
