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I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.
You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal
I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.
I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.
I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.
I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.
I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.
They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.
I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
I'm a girl who always looks at toilets and thinks Wow, how do we waste that much water when there are people who don't even have water?
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.
All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
It's weird people think my kids will be in therapy because of their names. Guys, my kids will be therapy for LOTS of reasons, I'm sure.
I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
I am so excited. I love IIFA. I think it's great to meet all the people from your fraternity in one place, that too out of the country.
I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.
People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.