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“I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.”

Thinking Giving Sports Trouble Conversation Basketball Interviews

“I don't think of myself as having a particular role. I'm lucky enough to be able to make my living essentially by expressing my opinions. But, you know, I think the world would manage quite well if I weren't doing it.”

Thinking World Enough Opinion Lucky Manage

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.”

Thinking Hot Dork

Author:Ashley Olsen

“I don't think of myself as just a pop artist, but someone who knows she has a bigger meaning. I'm not doing this for myself; I'm doing this because it's my destiny.”

Thinking Artist Destiny My Destiny Pop Art

Author:Robyn

“I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.”

Thinking Way Want Art Found Painting Best Way Contentment

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.”

Thinking Running Kids Guy Saws Building Baby Type Burning Type Of Guy Offbeat Burning Buildings

Author:Christian Slater

“I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.”

Thinking Want Giving Hips Bus

Author:Roger Lloyd-Pack

“I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.”

Thinking Sometimes Blessed Cards Combat Boots Heels Cursed Combat Boots

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness.”

Thinking Long Stills Book Impression Uncertainty Cynicism Skepticism Earnest Earnestness Early Life

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.”

Thinking I Am What I Am

Author:Isabeli Fontana

“I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.”

Thinking Flexible Unbreakable Adaptable

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“I don't think of myself of a late-show host any more than I think of myself of a game-show host. I mean, I've done both, I've been an actor. I'm just kind of a carny, that's it.”

Thinking Kind Mean Done Host

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.”

Thinking Important Sound Movement Activity Rational Appeals Phrases

Author:Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.”

Thinking Acceptance Fit Rejection

Author:Emily Raboteau

“I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.”

Thinking Self Sex Impulse Destructive Self Destructive

Author:Thom Gunn

“I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.”

Thinking Spiritual Principles Struggle

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.”

Thinking Film Performances Make Sense Documentaries Hitchcock

Author:Jonathan Demme

“I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.”

Thinking World Spiritual Corporate Corporate World

Author:Karan Bajaj

“I don't think of the marketplace as teen-oriented or teen-dominated. I think of it as dominated by high-concept, in marketing especially.”

Thinking Concepts Marketing Marketplace

Author:Curtis Hanson

“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.”

Thinking Political Economic Train Wrecks Upheaval Train Wrecks

Author:Jane Jacobs

“I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling.”

Thinking Feelings Term Emotion Notes

Author:Geoff Tate

“I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.”

Thinking Happens School Song Fall High School Falling In Love Rejected Teenage School Life

Author:Mark Hoppus

“I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, "Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff..."”

Thinking Stuff Males Affection Strikes Boundaries Taboo

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.”

Thinking Social Components Social Network

Author:Biz Stone

“I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.”

People Thinking Knows World Writing Mind Able Audience Groups China Small Groups

Author:Bei Dao

“I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.”

Thinking Knows Doe Made Book Courses Individual Social Process Millions Influence Economic Mass Historical Effectiveness

Author:Denise Levertov

Source: Light Up the Cave

“I don't think one can question MS' leadership.”

Thinking

Author:Virat Kohli

“I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.”

Thinking Trying Running

Author:Roger Housden

“I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.”

Thinking Moments Life Is

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.”

Thinking Needs Children Two Whole Parent Raises Village

Author:Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.”

People Thinking Should Laughing Stage Stupid Comfortable Standing Stupid Things Very Stupid

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.”

Thinking Should Years Looks Jobs Literature Wish Stage Stages Of Life

Author:Charles Kuralt

“I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles.”

Thinking Talking Opposites Magnetic Opposites Attract

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.”

Thinking World Trying Interesting Imagine Ordinary Very Interesting Ordinary Things

Author:Chris Van Allsburg

“I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.”

People Thinking World Views Share Chaos

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.”

Thinking Standing Rays

Author:Jamie Hyneman

“I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was.”

Thinking Way Fall Destroyed Our Family Falling Apart Rearranging

Author:Brooke Hogan

“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Believe Results Company Focus Duty Return Citizens Solutions Opposites Come Up Genuine Consumers Improving Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Paul Polman

“I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.”

Thinking Wanted Desire Moral Our Lives Offers Jokes Opposites Details Confusion

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“I don't think our pro offense would work at the college level.”

Thinking Levels College Offense

Author:Chip Kell

“I don't think our system, where we have one romantic partner, where we get married and we're only supposed to have sex with one person - that doesn't make a lot of sense. Not that polygamy makes any more sense. I've found a system that seems to work for me, and it doesn't require monogamous commitment from anyone.”

Thinking Persons Seems Found Sex Married Commitment Partners Polygamy

Author:Chester Brown

“I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.”

Thinking War Used Nations Building Ought Troops Iraq War Nation Building Our Troops

Author:George W. Bush

“I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.”

Thinking Way Hands Pain Growth Painful Prerequisites

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out what inspires and challenges them. But for me, I'm not sure it's necessary for our bodies to define us, especially now when there are so many examples of femininity, of womanhood.”

Thinking Artist Challenges Inspire Painting Not Sure Womanhood Femininity

Author:Issa Rae

“I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.”

Thinking Way Hands Fun Force Effort Struggle Balance Oblivion Futility Afraid Of Death Pandemics

Author:John Green

“I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.”

Thinking Believe Life Is Values Black White Color Paper Pages Things To Do Remove Going Away Bad Things Black And White Reproducing Actual Life Xerox

Author:Ursula Burns

“I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.”

Thinking Knows Children Parent

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“I don't think Peg Bundy was very much like Katey Sagal. Definitely the wardrobe Gemma from Sons of Anarchy wears might be a little more like Katey Sagal. I mean, any time you play anything, there's pieces of yourself that you're kind of elaborating on. I mean, you're using parts of yourself.”

Thinking Kind Mean Son Anarchy Wardrobe Peg

Author:Katey Sagal

“I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.”

People Thinking Way Giving Opportunity Fiction Ordinary Appetite Smarter Non Fiction Limited Time

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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