- American Soldiers
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very complicated topic, and if I have written a number of books they are always on topics that I think I know something about.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very passionate about political issues, but I also think that listening to people who disagree is extremely important, and I try to build that into my teaching, sometimes by co-teaching with rightwing colleagues.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a natural science tradition, and we don't expect them to have the contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. And I think that's a great loss.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020