- 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
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised my hand to ask a question of the school president, and he said, 'See me after class.' And the rest is history.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if someone told me I could have been a visual artist, I might have been a visual artist instead. And if I'd known I could have done art history, I would have done that. But I just didn't know.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you label a neighborhood 'bad' and avoid it, then you don't know and don't see what goes on there. And there's no human face to interrupt that narrative.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020