- Republican
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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
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Palin really led to Trump. Was this somehow a bit of a precursor or something? I'm willing to say, 'Maybe so.'
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.
- Governance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this big kid in me. I indulge him; I let him out to horse around. I think I'm being a great old man.
- Initiative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020