- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept my teaching certificate active while I was with WWE. It definitely wouldn't be something that I'd mind going back to.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I would do my teammate's hair and their makeup sometimes. I did a friend's makeup at the 2008 Olympics, and she said, 'Have you ever considered taking classes?' For some reason, it had never crossed my mind.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book.
- Grammatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020