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“I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.”

People Thinking Levels Common Treated Uncomfortable Decency

Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.”

Thinking Easy Common Imagine Motive Fallacy Wishful Thinking

Author:George Eliot

“Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.”

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.”

Thinking Humans Certain Evil Human Beings Common Groups Materials Communication Chaos Censorship Trusted Pornography Common Good Selective Uncontrollable

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.”

Thinking World Common This World Common Sense Wishful Thinking Paramount

Author:Francoise Sagan

“I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.”

Thinking Country Used Common Heard Citizens Argument Abuse Like Me Phrases Hurtful Usage

Author:Gunter Grass

“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”

Thinking Might Death Actors Felt Loss Common Impact Response Catastrophe Injured Deprivation

Book:Claremont essays

Source: Claremont essays

“Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.”

Thinking Wells Common Talking Failing Speech Burrs

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.”

Thinking Light Love Is Common Vision Sight Blind True Love Is

Book:Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

Source: Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

“We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.”

“I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.”

Thinking Way Firsts Doe Different Country House Common Support Amount Fit Authority Vote Bottom Starting Priorities Common Sense Budgets Procedures

Author:Millicent Fenwick

“But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.”

Ifs Thinking Should Humans Kind Shows Literature Social Common Conditions Awareness Reader Commitment Nerves Manifest Touching Slips Human Condition

Author:Bel Kaufman

“We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.”

Thinking Needs Values Energy Common Policy Practicals Common Sense Old Fashioned American Values Energy Policy

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.”

Thinking Way Causes Common Practice Angry Gentleman Sarcasm Offending

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.”

Thinking Feelings Age Hours Sleep Common Music Is Contrary Common Sense Waking Solace

Author:Mark Heard

“I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant... I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - working for the common people out there and being a servant, a public servant, and I have seen this.”

People Thinking Mean Common Profession Best Things Servant Things To Do Public Servants

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”

Thinking World Want Guy Passion Common Genius Singing Guitar Compare Playing Guitar

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.”

“In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.”

“I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.”

Thinking Firsts Moving Common Type Elements Competition Entering Monopoly

Author:Bill Vaughan

“One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.”

People Thinking Want Persons Next Common Mistake Listening Conversation

Author:Max Weiss

“I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.”

Thinking Children Enough Used Common Modern Civilization Mets Horror Used To Be Nerves Daring

Author:Muriel Wace

“Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.”

Thinking Reality Force Common Existence Known Disease Standing Cancer Myth Oppression Patriot Harsh Lone Lone Wolf Harsh Reality

Author:Steven Weber

“Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.”

Thinking Giving Should Looks Children Ends States Whole Care Interest Common Cities Education Citizens Training Manifest Instruction Inseparable Common Interests

Book:Aristotle

Source: Aristotle

“I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.”

People Thinking Form Common Appeals Critique Common Ground Best Nature

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I dont know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. Thats really what I am. But I dont think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.”

Thinking Knows Common Know How Common Sense Farmers Senators Equipment Grounded Fixing Tractors

Author:Jon Tester

“A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.”

Thinking World Way Ideas Facts Church United Common Practice Members Relation Regard Sacred Translate Profane

Author:Emile Durkheim

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.”

Thinking Self Actors Common Self Esteem Strange Lows Esteem Combination Low Self Esteem

Author:Kurt Fuller

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think that is mostly twaddle... The liquidity gives us these crazy booms, which have many problems as well as virtues.”

Thinking Giving Problem Common Virtue Crazy Capitalism Notion Contributors Liquidity

Author:Charlie Munger

“A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.”

“I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Would Be Asks Common Roles Watches Happened Models Female Role Models Awkward Thread Bizarre Keep Trying Demographics Watch Me Older Sister Common Threads

Author:Grace Helbig

“It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.”

Ifs Thinking Common Failing Childhood Hero Satisfied Demon

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."”

Thinking Children Common Steps Students Claims Critical Math Core Initiative Critical Thinking Step Up Common Core Step Children

Author:David Harsanyi

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

Thinking Trying Looks Self Use Order Girl Common Company Fit Behavior Asking Raises Ceo Mold Entitlement Dose Trying To Change

Author:Adora Svitak

“I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Hands Common Computer Stuck Cornered

Author:David Nicholls

“Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.”

Thinking Wells Desire Difficult Common Please Common Sense

Author:Rene Descartes

“Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.”

Thinking Men Way Wells Character Values Common Acting Steps Support Virtue Honest Goodness Charity Generosity Common Life

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.”

Thinking Together Common Music Is Notes Musical Tone Links Closest Life Together Musical Notes

Author:Marvin Gaye

“Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.”

Thinking Hate Literature Causes Common Principles Taste Mere

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.”

Thinking World Writing Whole Stories Values Easy Hours Common Practice Alive Solitude Quiet Letters Whole World Thoughtful Lap Inner Life

Author:Vivian Gornick

“I think one thing most of faiths have in common is they all realize that everything manifests from one [god]. That's whether you're dealing with science, religion, Bible, whatever. They all realize it all came from one, and then from one, you got many.”

Thinking Realizing Common One Thing Science Religion

Author:RZA

“When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.”

Thinking Helping Asks Father President Common Areas Raises Ask Me President Bush Common Ground Tsunami

Author:William J. Clinton

“I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.”

Thinking Made Past Social Common Rocks Essence Structure Made It Fixed Rock N Roll Monotheism Social Structure

Author:Ezra Furman

“It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.”

Thinking Common Nice Theory Philosophical Defects

Author:Saul

“I think it's really important to love yourself. Because I feel like a lot of the time, especially right now, I've noticed that insecurity is something that's so common that it's not glorified but like romanticized. And it shouldn't be because at the end of the day you have to live with yourself and be happy with who you are. If not, then you're not going to be a happy individual and whatever people say will get to you. So you have to know who you are and like it that way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Important Ends Individual Common Love You Right Now Who You Are The End Of The Day Insecurity Love Yourself

Author:Camila Cabello

“Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic”

Thinking Art Common Logic Common Sense Royal Port

Author:Antoine Arnauld

“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".”

Thinking Writing Mean Hard Spirit Values Simple Common Activity Limits Definitions Exploration Display Exploring Cleverness Hacks Hacking Playfulness

Author:Richard Stallman

“The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.”

Thinking Should Believe Said Order I Believe Common Mankind Ignorance Quiet Prejudice Notion Reasoning Herds

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

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