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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm acting, there are moments where I'm thinking, 'I sound like my mom when I say that,' or, 'I sound like my dad when I say that.'
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't really made plans for the future; I'm just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven't really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
What if the coach of Kosovo wants me as the captain? Of course, I am thinking about it then.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body.
- Jesus Christ
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I was never going to get further than Spain or France. I really didn't when I was younger. And then I started auditioning for 'Narnia,' and the first thing when I got the part was go straight to New Zealand, halfway around the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
- Good Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.
- British Columbia
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- Nov 07, 2020
My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the conclusion that I always did: that the boldest plan is the best and safest.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, I'm thinking negatively, thinking that we don't learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they say 'jazz,' I'm thinking of a word called 'the creative process.' It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that everyone's living. It crosses through there, but it's been contained.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
- Great Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn't thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking only of the legitimate theatre. But then I changed.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an angry wave in the '70s, a strong feminist angry wave. I remember thinking - oh my God - I thought it was the beginning of something, and it all went quiet.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
- Best Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if you have one billion rupees in your bank account or one rupee. This is one life you get, and you'd rather spend it enjoying whatever you have, rather than thinking, 'Oh, I should have scored seven more runs, or I should get more money.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that point, met Stanley Kubrick and was like, 'Whoa, this can be an art form, and you can really move people the way you do simply by acting.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I'm not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I'm not in the wrong. I'm a millionaire, and I'm not thinking about grabbing an old woman's purse.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020