Famous Quotes: Thinking

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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I'm sick of playing romantic leads.
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
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When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.
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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.
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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
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