- People
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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
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he's amazing.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers - there were only white singers. They weren't even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don't know who gave us the name 'background singers,' but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020