- People
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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.
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- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more than themes. Themes are boring. Themes are, 'Wool is back,' but ideas are, 'Why is wool back?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that's true?
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020