- 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
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the movie industry is a hard industry, but it is not that hard to be allowed to do what you want if you work hard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020