Thinking Quotes
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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've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
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I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
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I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"
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I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
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You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.
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Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.
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I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
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I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.
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It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.
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I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.
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Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.
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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
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I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
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I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.
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I think you have a lot of examples on TV of what not to do, you don't have a lot of examples of what to do.
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I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.
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I believe in privacy, I believe that people especially when it comes to private emails, personal emails, et cetera, I think people have a right to that privacy.
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Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.
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Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
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I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.
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My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.
