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“It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.”

“I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.”

Source: The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies

“I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.”

People Thinking Sometimes Action Forget Liberty Taken Violence Citizens Protect Blow Favour Civil Liberties Physical Violence

Author:John Howard

“When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.”

Thinking Writing Trying Forget Musical Entity Printed Keyboards

Author:Scott Walker

“I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.”

People Thinking Way Forget One Way Locked Flavor Way Of Thinking Blinders

Author:Dave Smalley

“I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.”

Thinking Believe Important I Believe Forget Degrees Intuition Intellect Lenses

Author:John Hurt

“I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.”

People Thinking Feels Games Forget Politician Constituents Playing Games

Author:Joe Lieberman

“Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.”

Thinking Goal Forget Break Management Lists Hey Target Avoided Guru Working Life Beating Yourself Beating Yourself Up

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, "Oh my god, how girls get ready? This is hilarious, I love this, I'm forgetting about all my problems."”

Thinking Want Long Problem Home Turns Girl Forget Ready Video Coming Home Turn-on Long Day

Author:Lilly Singh

“I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't want them to ever feel bored, or that they're being told what to think, or to feel depressed. I don't like films about victims - I want to celebrate brave survivors like Brenda and the wonderful women in the film.”

Thinking Want Feels Trying Stories Film Forget Audience Wonderful Victim Brave Celebrate Bored Survivor Filmmaking Wonderful Woman

Author:Kim Longinotto

“My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.”

“A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.”

Source: The Celtic Twilight

“Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.”

“I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Values Felt Forget

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Heart Facts Remember Turns Next Forget Wonder Forgotten Shade Rainbow Next Time Bruises

Book:fear of flying

Source: fear of flying

“People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.”

People Ifs Thinking Forget Psychology Serious

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I think it's easy to forget just how massive the muscles in the legs are, and how much testosterone is released in your body when you make sure you work your legs hard. Some people's bodies just take a long time to grow, and if you're naturally thin there's no cheating. It takes time. Your body will only grow muscle at a certain rate for your genetics, so take your time and keep at it.”

People Ifs Thinking Long Hard Body Certain Grows Easy Forget Long Time Rate Legs Your Body Muscles Cheating Massive Take Time Genetics It Takes Time Testosterone Take Your Time No Cheating

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.”

Thinking Important Self Moments Happens Culture Forget Fronts Tvs Phones That Moment Performers Emergencies Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Laura Benanti

“I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if it don't last, I made you forget about the other thing you might have been thinking about.”

People Ifs Thinking World Has Beens Made Moments Might Lasts Forget Mad That Moment Might Have Been Make People Smile

Author:Buddy Guy

“Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.”

Thinking Want Trying Looks Play Hands Eye Can Do Forget Imagine Dancing Notes Fingerboard

Author:Allan Holdsworth

“I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Made School Pain Remember Faces Girl Nations Realizing Forget Poor Boys Knowing Doors College Never Forget Mexican

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.”

Thinking Should Easy Forget Forgiving

Author:Odette Annable

“Everybody when you propose and talk about putting your life together, the ultimate goal is the same. I think sometimes people forget your background and however you were raised. You want to have a different route to get to that goal.”

People Thinking Want Different Sometimes Together Goal Forget Ultimate Raised Backgrounds Routes Propose Forget You Ultimate Goal Life Together

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled out. I haven't been hammering it in the gym, and I haven't been thinking, 'Right, I need to look good.'”

People Thinking Needs Years Looks Forget Havens Changed Tvs Stones Filled Bounds Gym Thinking Right Filled Out

Author:Kelvin Fletcher

“Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.”

Thinking World Real Self Lost Causes Forget Greater This World Higher Difficulty Good Things Forget You Higher Self Real Self

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“When you do something good, the Argentine people really attach themselves to you. They have so many problems back there that they're looking for somebody to be proud of. I think about that, and I won't forget it.”

People Thinking Problem Forget Proud Be Proud Forget It

Author:Manu Ginobili

“Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Children Doe Stills Real Grows Human Beings Forget Numbers Growing Up Childhood Eating Phones Hats Forget It Phone Numbers Real Human Salami

Author:Erich Kastner

“Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?”

People Thinking Knows Way Persons Character Shows Felt Forget Cities Shots Wide Filmmaker Abstract Interiors Exterior Great Film

Author:Miranda July

“We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.”

Thinking Want Wells Sometimes Hard Helping Hours Forget Car Cry Hard Work Tired Average Studios Granted Working It Drivers Mansions Movie Sets Recording Studio

Author:Leonard Pitts

“Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Christian Dies Forget Profession Glorious Adore Forget Him

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God: The Complete Works of Brother Lawrence with Notes and Scripture References

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God: The Complete Works of Brother Lawrence with Notes and Scripture References

“Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.”

People Thinking Prayer Forget

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

People Thinking Humans Purpose Certain Forget Compassion Opinion Tyranny Propaganda Tyrants Propagandist

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.”

People Ifs Thinking Sometimes Shows Culture Forget Dresses Chains Jeans

Author:Hilary Hahn

“People say if you keep making work and keep putting it out, better things will come. I think artists should never forget that. I think that's what you have to be committed to if you're an artist, that's where the good feelings come from. It's so easy to get caught up in other stuff, like the business part of it. If you just have to be aware, just keep putting it out there.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Feelings Artist Easy Stuff Forget Caught Committed Never Forget Caught Up Easy To Get Good Feeling

Author:Kalup Linzy

“I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.”

People Thinking Life Is Forget End Times Spend Time Life Is Short

Author:Vincent Cassel

“Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.”

Thinking Men Forget Half Cunning Cunning Man

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.”

Thinking Knows Men World Firsts Looks Doe Matter Reality Earth Remember Names Water Forget Fire Air Taste First Time Transformation Fellows Lips Esteem Look Up Air And Water Words Matter

Author:Roger Zelazny

“You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know”

Thinking Knows Enough Forget You Think You Know Forget Everything

Author:James Victore

“I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.”

Thinking Forget Forget It Leather Lumps Shane Bowlers

Author:Brian Lara

“Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

Thinking Memories Forget Monsters Recalls Forget It Files Owen Meany

Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany

“Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget”

Thinking Persons Doe Different Remember Forget Honor Unique Majority Minorities Being Different Unforgettable Forgettable

Author:Suzy Kassem

“We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.”

People Thinking World Important Problem America Easy Forget Poor Privileged Poor People

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The workload is so heavy you forget about thinking, it just kind of happens.”

Thinking Kind Happens Forget Heavy Workload

Author:David Giuntoli

“I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.”

People Thinking Important Shows Seems Actors Lines Forget Honest Performances Important Things

Author:Shailene Woodley

“You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!”

Thinking Trying Easy Forget Successful Being Successful

Author:Eric Thomas

“I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Faces Loses Forget Car Involved Eating Accidents Breasts Good Ideas Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery Car Accident

Author:Sally Phillips

“The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.”

Thinking Trying Forget Harder

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I don't want to change. I don't ever want to be a stuck-up asshole. I mean, some people probably think I am now, but I don't care what they think, because I know I'm not. I'm a down to earth person. I always have time for my fans. I don't care who they are, what they look like, if they're rich or poor, pretty or ugly. I always have time for them. I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for them, and I'll never forget that.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Looks Mean Persons Care Today Earth Forget Poor Rich Fans Don't Care Ugly Stuck I Don't Care Never Forget Down To Earth Rich Or Poor Stuck Up

Author:Lita Ford

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