- 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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adopting big-business practices is one thing, and adopting agribusiness practices that would dilute the meaning of 'organic' is another. On the whole, I think we're doing a pretty good job of preserving the integrity of organic foods.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
- Doorstep
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- Nov 07, 2020