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Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.
If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.
Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.
I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
I think Twitter is becoming remarkably intolerant and heavily liberal. As in, anything that is perceived as being "pro Trump" is scolded and mocked.
There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.
I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.
I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.
I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.
I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.
There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.
I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.
If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.
Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.
I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.
I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?
I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.
I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.
I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.
I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.
When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.
People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.
There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.
But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.
I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.
Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.
I know when things feel a little, like, intrusive and when they don't. I don't have a lot to hide. But I do sometimes think, don't share everything.
I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.
I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.
People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.
Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.