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“Maybe it's not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it's the very presence of one thing - light or darkness - that necessitates the existence of the other. Think about it, people couldn't become legendary heroes if they hadn't first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if there weren't diseases for them to treat.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Done Light Existence Darkness Clear Cutting One Thing Hero Disease Doctors Treats Combat Legendary

Book:Embrace

Source: Embrace

“The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.”

Thinking Needs Past Social Cutting Failing Media Tradition Social Media Online Clothings Fabric Jewels Learn From The Past

Author:Giuseppe Zanotti

“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Language Half Cutting Couple Limits Music Is Oneself Definitions Peculiar Dictionary Illiterate Avant Garde New Music

Author:Archie Shepp

“I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Ends Certain Process Cutting Particular Goes On Spots

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.”

Thinking Way Giving May States Fall Water Cutting Policy Rivers Filled Wave Weather Boat Foul Rise And Fall

Author:John Selden

“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”

Thinking Knows Men Happiness Cutting Fit Holy Please Creatures Delight Thanks Miserable God Love True God Holy Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

“There's a lot of downsides to social media, but one of the nice things is that you can cut through all the BS and go straight to the person and ask them directly. I think that's a wonderful thing. I love talking to people who are true fans or who have a true love of cinema, and so if I can talk to them directly, great.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons I Can Asks Social Talking Nice Cutting Wonderful Fans Media Social Media Cinema Wonderful Things Nice Things Things I Love

Author:Andrew Stanton

“I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.”

Thinking Feels Cutting Strange Anxiety Nervous

Book:My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles

Source: My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles

“Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.”

Thinking Years Looks Ends Play Problem Views Cutting Policy Prove Taxes Program Spending Favors The End Of The Day Subtle Borrowed Tax Cuts And At The End Of The Day Borrowed Money

Author:Alan Greenspan

“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”

Thinking Way I Can Science Found Cutting Ignorance Library Fund American Society Libraries And Librarians Libraries And Reading

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.”

Thinking Kind Cutting Taxes Tax Cuts Irritated

Author:Barack Obama

“People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.”

People Thinking World Years Different Lasts Social Numbers Cutting Air Crime Disease Concepts Teeth Epidemics

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.”

Thinking Careers Cutting College Be Good Empowering Nonsense Going To College Empower Yourself Cutting Yourself

Author:Claire Danes

“I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Use Bigs Able Film Space Audience Cutting Fans Shots These Days Bored Long Shots

Author:Alice Englert

“Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who couldn't be more thrilled with this? The press, the reporters who follow the president. Well, think about it. After eight years of spending every holiday cutting brush in Crawford, Texas, they get to go to Hawaii!”

Thinking Knows Years Wells States Home President Cutting Presses Eight Spending Barack Holiday Texas Reporters Brushes Hawaii Home State

Author:Jay Leno

“Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.”

Thinking World Needs Moments Seems Given Cutting Refuge Idiotic

Author:Milla Jovovich

“When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.”

Thinking Humans Looks Ideas Play Can Do Human Beings Cutting Like You Doctors Surgery You Can Do It

Author:Carrie-Anne Moss

“I've got girlfriends who call me 'Raye' or 'L. Raye', but when somebody calls me 'Lisa', it's like, 'You've got two more times to say that and then I think you're disrespecting me and I'm going to have to cut you!'”

Thinking Two Cutting Like You Girlfriend Call Me More Time

Author:LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

“I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.”

Thinking Believe Kind Opportunity Saws Cutting Industry Edges Entertainment Guardian Music Industry Programmes Cutting Edge Opportunity Knocks Itching Bloodlust

Author:Luke Haines

“The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.”

People Thinking Way Kind Made Soul Character Cutting Influence Changed Shapes Glasses Outside Influences

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“I think you want to do as much as you can for your fans. I take as many opportunities as I can when it comes to media and interviews and autograph sessions and things of that nature - as long as it's not interfering with the schedule and how much inexperience you can get on the track. When it starts to cut into that, it's kind of defeating the purpose. So that's where I draw the line.”

Thinking Want Kind Long I Can Purpose Opportunity Lines Cutting Fans Media Draws Track Interviews Interfere Schedules Session Autographs Inexperience

Author:John Wes Townley

“There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.”

Thinking Way Together Film Cutting Mood Standing Out Sequence Staging

Author:Roger Deakins

“People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, Nothing can go wrong with them. We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.”

People Thinking Humans Walks Audience Cutting Stage Sick Being Human Entertainers Headache

Author:Karen Carpenter

“I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became clear.”

Thinking I Can Different Speak Voice Clear Cutting Proud Blessed Rate Breathe Meat Different Things Vegetarian Dairy

Author:Common

“Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.”

Thinking Bigs Cutting Aim Size Blow Think Big Aim High

Author:Gary W. Keller

“I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.”

Thinking Doe Guy Turns Audience Cutting Illusion Shock Turn-on Cnn

Author:Alice Cooper

“When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.”

Thinking Cutting Mom Newspapers

Author:Andrew Mason

“If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are even better teaching than Zen books.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Said Book Moments Sound Cutting Written Teaching Dog All Things Roosters

Author:Seungsahn

“I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs I Can Cutting Wife Cold Angry My Wife Disagree Shells

Author:John Simm

“Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.”

People Thinking Looks Cutting Athlete Diets Moderation Indulge Indulge In Olympic Athlete Everything In Moderation

Author:Summer Sanders

“When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.”

“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”

People Thinking World Years Wells Two Today Order Names Half Cutting Imagine Hundred Folks Credit Debt Cards Mail Old People Credit Card Puzzling

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then laser-cut. I like the fact that it's slightly wrong; I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes.”

Thinking Want Giving Facts Individual Process Can Do Mistake Cutting Computer Making Mistakes Lasers Illustrators Scalpels Handmade

Author:Ben Eine

“I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.”

Thinking Needs Persons Country Cutting Accounts Aim Emissions Imports Co2 Co2 Emissions Externalities

Author:Martin Rees

“I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stuff Effort Cutting Havens Noses Bloody Jumping Jumping In

Author:Tom Weston-Jones

“While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and balanced Vermont's budget - all traditionally conservative policies. Dean also received an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association, which I think you can't get unless you've killed a guy.”

Thinking Guy Cutting Policy New York Taxes Conservative Income Labels Budgets Welfare Opponents Association Balanced Governors New York Times Rating Income Tax Dean Rifles Vermont Throwback

Author:Jon Stewart

“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.”

“I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.”

Thinking Sometimes Enough Break Nice Cutting Fate Okay Crap Had Enough Make Out

Author:Nora Roberts

“Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Poor Mistake Cutting Program Scientist Congress Aliens Signals Poor People Eliminating Cannons

Author:Dave Barry

“Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.”

Thinking Feels Action Turns Natural Space Effort Comedy Cutting Drama Shots Action Movie Goofy

Author:Michael Jai White

“Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Enough Helping Can Do Realizing Pleasure Careers Too Much Cutting Materials Relax

Author:Ramsey Campbell

“When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'”

“I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.”

Thinking World Heart Cutting Tyranny

Author:Eve Ensler

“The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."”

Thinking Firsts Might Stuff Loses Five Cutting Minutes Directors Gains Studios Release Five Minutes Suggesting

Author:Barry Sonnenfeld

“I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.”

People Thinking Mind War Would Be Form Choices Force Laughing Cutting Exercise Arguing Free Will Mind Control Supervillains

Author:Jemaine Clement

“I've put pencil to paper... and I've said I would cut spending, and I've said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.”

Thinking Said Country Hate Taken Cutting Ought Paper Spending Aids Quitting Budgets Meat Pencils Foreign Aid

Author:Rand Paul

“I think you're sort of always waiting, wondering when the word "cut" is going to be said when you're doing a scene. Like you're there and you're doing the scene and you're always sort of like, ‘Okay. Are they going to call cut? How far are we taking this? Are they going to call cut?’”

Thinking Said Waiting Wonder Cutting Like You Cold Scene Always Waiting

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“In terms of bullying, there are so many new laws in America, I am not sure about worldwide, but in America, the laws for bullying are getting strict. And I am really excited of how strict they are and I think it has cut down on a lot of bullying. As a kid I was a bully and I was bullied. I lived both sides of it. To see what is being done with bullying now is super important.”

Thinking Important Done Kids America Law Sides Term Cutting Excited Not Sure Bullying Strict Both Sides Bully Bullied Being Done

Author:Tyra Banks

“Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Character Stories Cutting Plans Details Evolve Lazy Short Story

Author:Jorge Luis Borges