- 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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
- Nov 07, 2020
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light?
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I don't think I've ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want to be independent then we should aim for the same thing.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020