- Long
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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
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
- Hard Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
- Few Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval and their own success - and their writing reflects that.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020