Thinking Quotes
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
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I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.
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I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.
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If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.
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He's good at that, ... But I can tell. I'm around him a lot. I couldn't even explain it. But I can feel it. He definitely wants to produce. It's not like he's getting any younger. The time to do it is now.
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I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.
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I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
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I don't really have any different cravings from the ones that I had before. I've always liked food that is not good for you, and I still do. But I think I've been really good with eating healthy. I think probably the biggest thing is french fries, but that's nothing new. Right now, I'm trying to force myself to drink water with lemon. Bo-ring.
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
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I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.
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Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.
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In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
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I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.
