Thinking Quotes
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I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.
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There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
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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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Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
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Images and pictures... have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world. ...Carefully constructed families of pictures can act as a calculus all their own. Like any successful systems of symbols, with an appropriate grammar they enlarge the number of things that we can do without consciously thinking.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.
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We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.
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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.
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Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
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I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
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I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'
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'I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don’t know about.'
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The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.
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Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.
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To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.
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Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.
