- 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
- Red
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some films are pure entertainment of course, but what interests me and what I want to do are projects that really make you think, that move you, that will bring you something that will stay with you for a while. I think films are essential to the intellectual awakening of people.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think wearables in general have, as their best calling, to better understand our current state and needs and to express those back to the world.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020