Thinking Quotes
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I think most people didn't want to do court duty.
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We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
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It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.
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He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.
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Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.
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Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
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A lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.
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But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.
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I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.
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When I do something wrong, members will think it's because I'm the maknae and things will be ok.
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When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
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I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.
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It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
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Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
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If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little.
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I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.
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Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.
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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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What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
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I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
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Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.
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I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.
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I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
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I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.
