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“I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.”

Thinking Facts Generations Crime Horror Conservative Chosen Genre

Author:Laura Lippman

“I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.”

Thinking Wealth Responsibility Generations Amount Characteristics New Generation

Author:Azim Premji

“I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.”

Thinking Wells Fighting Generations Products Guitar Blank Headphones

Author:Robert Quine

“I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Age Player Generations Tennis This Generation Tennis Player Best Ever

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.”

Thinking World Important Hard Bigs Film Dies Next Stars Space Fantasy Generations Fans Grew Grew Up Originals Nine Cinema Sci Fi Next Generation Deep Space

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is that it inspires a lot of the younger generation so, you know, with cooking shows and reality shows and the social media, I think it really makes our industry a hotter industry.”

Thinking Knows Shows Reality Social Watches Generations Media Inspire Industry Cooking Social Media Reality Shows Younger Generation Hotter Cooking Shows

Author:Roy Yamaguchi

“I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.”

Thinking Littles Said Whole Kids Next Attention Generations Hopeless Usual Next Generation Attention Span Younger Generation Cranky

Author:Robin McKinley

“I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.”

Thinking Generations Century Late 21st Century 20th Century Future Generation Upheaval

Author:N. T. Wright

“Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.”

Thinking Believe Wells Country States Done America I Believe Challenges Greater Generations Groups Integrity Tendencies Disagree Possessed Tenacity Entitlement Nostalgic Wholeheartedly

Author:Jon Stewart

“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.”

“I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.”

Thinking Knows Way Different Next Goal Generations Creating Another Way Next Generation Blueprints

Author:Janelle Monae

“As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.”

Thinking Justice Liberty Rights Generations Enlightenment Concepts Method Philosopher Abstract Scholar Abstraction Adopted Schooled Liberty And Justice Rotation

Author:Michael Shermer

“I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.”

Thinking Done Generations Influence Fashion

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.”

Thinking Giving Kind Persons Made God Hands Purpose Choices Religious Chance Grace Generations Special Creator Compare Allowing This Generation One Of A Kind God Has A Plan

Author:Roy Lessin

“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.”

“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”

Thinking Generations Politician Election Future Generation Statesmen

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.”

Thinking Firsts Written Generations Poet Satire

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.”

Thinking World Humans Different Problem Generations Human Nature Changed Circumstances Teenage Impatience

Author:Loretta Young

“Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.”

Thinking Generations Despite Our Generation Harlem

Book:Manchild in the Promised Land

Source: Manchild in the Promised Land

“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”

“Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.”

Thinking Believe Term Environment Generations Mankind Prove Maturity Mastery This Generation

Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.”

Thinking Wells History Generations Land This Generation Statesmanship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.”

Thinking Littles Different Character Film Girl Generations Female Exception Princess Fairytale Female Characters My Girl Little Princess Maleficent Disney Film

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.”

People Thinking Young Careers Generations My Generation Understand Me

Author:John Waters

“The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.”

Thinking Knows Want Lasts Next Generations Couple Evidence Raised Favors Not Sure Generation X

Author:Dave Sim

“There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.”

People Thinking World Real Problem Strong Generations Duty Connections Civics Civic Duty Strong Connection

Author:Tim Heidecker

“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”

Thinking Way Two Hands Together Generations Magic Particular Smart Machines Method Someday Artificial Intelligence Improving Being Smart Maybe Someday

Author:Marvin Minsky

“I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.”

Thinking Way Two Life Is Generations Creating Drawing Good And Bad Pitfalls

Author:Elvis Costello

“Everyone with the new generation is about the social network and YouTube, so if you put a proper version of what it should ideally be, I think it's great. All the stuff on YouTube is there as a back-up! I think that's the way it should be.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Social Stuff Generations Versions Youtube New Generation Social Network

Author:Kerry Ellis

“Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.”

Thinking Firsts Persons I Can Home Today Together Creativity Creative Cutting Generations Type Internet Aspect Blow Online Great Times Get Together This Generation Laptops

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.”

Thinking Want Reason Facts House Generations Going Out Definite Apprehension Younger Generation Alarmists

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Film Written Generations Heard Hero Stores Video Clerks Generation X

Book:Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition

“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.”

Thinking Helping Too Much Generations Greatness Skip

Author:Nick Simmons

“I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.”

Thinking Environment Generations New Generation

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.”

Ifs Thinking Today Lying Sex Differences Lines Generations Degrees England Mistaken Commonplace Victorian Pompeii

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Use Reality Moral Progress Failing Generations Judging Achievement Standards Tests Currents Vigorous Forward Thinking

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.”

“Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Lasts Stuff Generations Finals Stores Something New Last Year Gadgets

Author:William Gibson

“One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Generations Who You Are Yesterday Younger Generation Sad Things

Author:Hugh Hefner

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Matter Would Be Individual Wish Generations Influence Subjects Opposites Species Bones Accidents Flesh Reconcile Two Opposites External Influences

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.”

Thinking Mother Next Generations Daughter China Grandmother My Grandmother The Next One Goofy

Author:Grace Slick

“I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.”

“I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.”

Thinking Long Important Chance Generations Information Internet Flow Tools Presses Invention Future Generation Printing Printing Press

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.”

Thinking Generations Son Radio Your Son

Author:Donnie Simpson

“I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'”

People Thinking Facts White Generations Hey

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.”

“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”

People Thinking Mind Kind May Children Stills Ideas Past Turns Parent Generations Danger Concepts Prejudice Our Children Careful Peculiar Seals Past Generations

Author:Brock Chisholm

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