I Quotes
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“I have always thought that it would be nice to not complete the exhibition in one place and close off the others as a result. Exhibitions should connect with various locations and promote exchange and interaction.”
“I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.”
“I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.”
“I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.”
“I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.”
Source: Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams
“I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they’ve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.”
Source: Borderless
“I have always thought that sisters have a way of communicating, no matter what keeps them apart.”
Source: Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
“I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.”
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
“I have always thought that the horrific sadist who concocted the escalating ladder of pain known as crucifixion, should have been the first one to try it.”
“I have always thought that the most sacred duty of men was to give their children an education that would prevent them, when they were older, from regretting their youth, which is the only time when one can truly get an education; you, my dear son, have now arrived at this happy age when the mind begins to think, and when the heart isn't yet subject to those intense emotions that will later come to disturb it.”
Source: Reason, Illusion, and Passion: Philosophical Works
“I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.”
“I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it is over to the viewer, they are either convinced or not convinced, moved or not moved and they decide whether they will take action or not.”
“I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.”
“I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.”
“I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.”
“I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.”
“I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.”
“I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.”
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author
“I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.”
“I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.”
“I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."”
“I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.”
“I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.”
“I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.”
“I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.”
“I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.”
“I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.”
“I have always tried to be all the tings my mother wanted me to be; ever the lady, always polite, never inconsiderate. I run my business the way my mother ran our house - everything just so. In some ways I am my mother - full of life when I'm happy, very cold when I'm angry. People say I look just like her. I'll tell you a secret: every time I pass a mirror, I gasp. I wonder if there's more here than meets the eye." - Karen, thirty-nine.”
Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
“I have always tried to be honest,' he said. 'With myself, if with no one else. Believing that there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't know what he's doing, a man who doesn't know his own mind.”
Source: My Friends
“I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.”
“I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.”
Source: Off the court
“I have always tried...
to counter the forces of
deeply embedded systemic power structures,
the ruthless abuse of that power,
and the pull to regression
to the benefit of some at the expense of others.
Those forces are strong.
We are stronger.
Never forget that.”
“I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.”
“I have always tried to drive a car that was better than me, and race against people who were better than me. If you are surrounded by people who are as good as you, or not as good, how are you going to learn?”
“I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.”
“I have always tried to keep an honest, age-appropriate line of communication open with my daughter,India, even during the teen years, a painful time of development when they usually shut down, and the last person they want to speak to is a parent. But India would always tell me what was going on, so I really encourage people to be as open with your children as you possibly can.”
“I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.”
Source: Ralph Eugene Meatyard : the family album of Lucybelle Crater and other figurative photographs
“I have always tried to live my life as a just and humble person. When the sanctions were announced, Europe should have questioned the people who have been sanctioned as well as to find the truth. That did not happen. How can Europe act fairly? Do they base their decisions on hearsay?”
“I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.”
“I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.”
“I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.”
“I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.”
“I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.”
“I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities. That's mainly what I go by. And I think that's the most important thing in any person's work, in the work that the people of Russia entrusted in me.”
“I have always tried to stay current.”
“I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.”
“I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.”