Thinking Quotes
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
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Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.
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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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My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.
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I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.
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I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.
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I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
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I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
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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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A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.
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The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.
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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
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The notion of "system" has gained central importance in contemporary science, society and life. In many fields of endeavor, the necessity of a "systems approach" or "systems thinking" is emphasized, new professions called "systems engineering," "systems analysis" and the like have come into being, and there can be little doubt that this this concept marks a genuine, necessary, and consequential development in science and world-view.
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We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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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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And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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The women's choice of footwear doesn't speak for their most important inner life, but rather it tells a story - this is an opportunity to express themselves. I think the thing that's most compelling about other people is when you don't look like you're trying to dress like your friend, colleague, neighbor, or anything else. That's a very arresting and exciting and compelling quality to possess - not everybody has the courage to walk out the door feeling like themselves, but once they do, it's thrilling to witness.
