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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.
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my favorite movie I watched with my dad would be 'A Knight's Tale' with Heath Ledger.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think diversity and multiculturalism on TV and on the screen is such a powerful thing. And to be honest, it's a very American thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously mistaken.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden or Germany, or any other country might do it. And we're doing it in a context where it has the potential, I think, for much better consequences than in those other countries.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in getting their kids into the right preschool in some elite communities which I think is going a little bit too far.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I think you're shutting yourself off from a lot of American culture if you are so completely isolated from what goes on, on popular TV? Yeah, you are!
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.
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- Nov 07, 2020