- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically 'objective' to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the scrutinizing eye of other people. And those are often the most important things that we do. The things we do when other people are watching are things that are conformist, obedient, normal, and unnotable.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Purple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the tech CEOs I know used to think that moving to the Midwest or the South was beneath us, a good tactic for the Boeings of the world who don't need the kind of rare skills we depend on, who have to grub for profits when we reach for growth. But if Amazon can't afford to keep growing in Seattle, who can?
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, 'The only artists I've ever heard of are dead.' It just wasn't in her experience... I don't think she had a sense that one could be an artist, because there wasn't anyone in my family who had done that.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020