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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made 'Howards End' and 'The Remains of the Day,' or that Paul Thomas Anderson made 'Phantom Thread.' They're about Britishness, but they're from an American perspective. And I actually think they're fantastic in the way that they understand Britishness.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always important to try and get a real sense of the world around my characters. I especially think it helps actors.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.
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- Nov 07, 2020