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“But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.”

People Thinking Has Beens Plans Movement Keys Concerned Consensus Haiti

Author:Danny Glover

“But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable—to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment—to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.”

People Thinking Should Important Seems Might Easy Moral Environment Truth Is Sticks Caught Careful Compromise Caught Up Our Environment Unthinkable

Author:Guy Spier

Source: The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

“But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.”

Thinking Wish My Own Mood

Author:Virginia Woolf

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924

“But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.”

Ifs Thinking Stuff Forget Kissing Violent Dramatic Bangs Sinister

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“But I think magic is just the truth that people believe. For most people, that truth is whatever helps them sleep at night, whatever makes their lives easier. It's different from objective truth.”

Believe Truth Magic Believing Objective Truth Preston A Study In Drowning Ava Reid Preston Heloury

Author:Ava Reid

Source: A Study in Drowning

“But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.”

Thinking Knows Sports Team Fans East Coast Philadelphia East Coast

Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree.”

English Major

Author:Dolly Alderton

Source: Ghosts

“But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them.”

Beauty Class Power Self Loathing Power Dynamics

Author:Gretchen Felker-Martin

Source: Manhunt

“But I think mostly it's your eyes. I want something from them no one else gets from them.' 'And what's that?' I asked, my voice low, almost hoarse. His words had affected me as deeply as any aphrodisiac. 'Soft.' His own voice had deepened with the highly sexual atmosphere. 'Soft the way only a woman's can be after she's come for me.”

Joss Braden

Author:Samantha Young

Source: On Dublin Street

“But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.”

Thinking Important Deals Subjects

Author:Vincente Minnelli

“But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.”

Thinking Mistake Tests Miracle Chemistry Testimony My Mistakes

Author:T. D. Jakes

“But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.”

Thinking Reason Water Comfort Distrust

Author:Frank Langella

“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead of by example. It seems to me that if a child's hero is their mother or father -- or even better, both of them in tandem -- then the rough road of learning and experience is going to be smoothed some. And every little bit of smoothing helps, in this rough old world that wants children to be miniature adults, devoid of charm and magic and the beauty of innocence.”

Childhood Adults Parenting Innocence

Author:Robert R. McCammon

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Wells Two Couple Splits Elderly

Author:Nick Park

“But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party - whose members for the most part come from the ghetto - seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.”

People Thinking Speak Language White Party Members Ghetto

Author:Bobby Seale

“But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.”

Thinking Made Havens Drug Made It Prozac

Author:Bob Geldof

“But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.”

Thinking Home Parent Roles Models Role Models Male Role Models

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.”

Thinking Facts School Views Theory Ought Evolution Fairs Darwinism Theory Of Evolution Scientific Facts

Author:Mike Huckabee

“But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Said Mother Great Love

Author:Nancy Mitford

Source: The Pursuit of Love

“But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Sometimes Swim Underwater

Author:Karen White

Source: The Beach Trees

“But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.”

Thinking Knows Want Enough Spirit Passion Leadership Creative Pure Perfection Excellence Contribution Good Enough Perfectionist Creative Spirit Passion For Excellence

Author:Andy Hertzfeld

“But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.”

Thinking Made Technology Economy Products Advertising Consumers

Author:Jay Chiat

“But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.”

Thinking Knows Want Should Play Today Young Teacher Instruments Starting Drummer Great Teacher Starting Out

Author:Buddy Rich

“But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.”

Thinking Ideas Facts Women Decision Gone Independence Remains Pioneers Bad Ideas

Author:Joan Sutherland

“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.”

Thinking Men Giving May Happens Individual Left Strong Moral Doubt Dignity Valuable Trusted Units Coattails

Author:John Steinbeck

Source: East of Eden

“But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.”

Thinking Knows Girl Normal

Author:Donna Summer

“But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.”

People Thinking Matter Smart Smart People

Author:Veronica Roth

“But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.”

Book Philosophy Literature Opinion Fire Enthusiasm

Author:Kwame Nkrumah

“But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.”

Thinking Children Facts Parent Too Much Praise Criticise

Author:Arne Jacobsen

“But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.”

Thinking Interest Sensitivity Counsellors

Author:Johannes Rau

“But I think that she was capable of anything because everything had already happened to her. She was fearless because she'd already suffered what the rest of us live in fear of.”

Feminism

Author:Parini Shroff

Source: The Bandit Queens

“But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Persons Doe Self Sometimes Prove Rate Shock Destructive Breakfast Prove It Self Destructive Second Rate

Author:Alison Lurie

Source: Real People: A Novel

“But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.”

Thinking Helping Would Be Spirit Building Protect Graves Cinema Fence Protectionism

Author:Wim Wenders

“But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.”

Thinking Life Is Process Messages Sorting Sorting Out

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.”

Thinking Kind Moments Certain Particular Involving Immediacy

Author:Donald Judd

“But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.”

Ifs Thinking Party Seeing Movement Republican Enthusiasm Tea Tea Party Tea Party Movement

Author:John Cornyn

“But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.”

“But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.”

Thinking Winning Enjoy Player Pressure Finals Hopefully Managers Soccer League Champion Massive Gamer Champions League

Author:Steven Gerrard

“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Thinking Children Running Certain Actors Share Elements Approach Denied Running Away Circus Pragmatic

Author:Toby Jones

“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”

Ifs Thinking Long States Government Able Growth Term Ability United United States Economy Obligation Long Term Global Economy

Author:Charles Bass

“But I think the goal of all these attacks is the same, which is to seize maximum media attention. Maybe some of these attacks were meant to be small. Some of them might have been failed larger attacks. And some of them are just part of a new strategy of doing lots of tiny attacks, as opposed to one large one.”

Thinking Goal Attention Strategy Meant To Be

Author:Karan Mahajan

“But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.”

Thinking Would Be Today Proud Be Proud Proud Of Me

Author:Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.”

Thinking Want Stars Situation Player Television Basketball Advantage Hip Hop Hips Thrown Hops Nba Taking Advantage

Author:Oscar Robertson

“But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.”

Thinking Majority Miserable Chickens Cows Pigs Miserable Life

Author:Peter Singer

“But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.”

Thinking Healthy Clean

Author:Misty Copeland

“But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.”

Thinking Lying Nature Attitude Environment Greater Demand Relation Seeking Victorian Industrious

Author:John Fowles

“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

Books

Author:Laura Amy Schlitz

Source: The Hired Girl

“But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.”

Thinking I Can Desire Certain One Thing Consistent Formulas Best Work Laurels

Author:Michael Stipe

“But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Action Voice Products Radio Pretending Annoying Annoyed Mimicking

Author:Richie Benaud

“But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.”

Thinking Littles Whole Fighting Acting Careers Appreciate Daring Versatile Good Acting Bullfighting

Author:Robert Klein

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