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“I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am.”

Thinking Humans Proud

Author:Sienna Miller

“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Values Given Walking Activity Communicate Architecture Aesthetic Rooted Human Activity Added Value

Author:Thom Mayne

“I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.”

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Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.”

Thinking Needs Humans Bits Fire Missing Contact Fire Escapes

Author:Jamie Oliver

“I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.”

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Author:Kelly Osbourne

“I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.”

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Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.”

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Author:Jim Fowler

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.”

Thinking Humans Mean Important Realizing

Author:Amy Lee

“It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.”

Thinking Humans Hard Human Beings Judging Judging You

Author:Brie Larson

“I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.”

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Author:Emeril Lagasse

“A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.”

Thinking Humans Long Important Beautiful Form Roles Long Time Ugly Tendencies Categories Long Time Ago Unimportant Lumps Interconnectedness

Author:Gary Larson

“At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.”

Thinking Humans Too Much Theological Logical Thinking

Author:John Polkinghorne

“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.”

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Author:John Polkinghorne

“There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.”

Thinking Humans Kind Use Mother Human Beings Mistake Understood All Kinds Labels

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”

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Author:Francis Spufford

“When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.”

Thinking Humans Earth Purpose Universe Planets Human Life Purpose Of Life

Author:Clifford D. Simak

“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”

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Author:Anatole France

“It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.”

Thinking Years Humans Wells Sake Unhappy Contact Impulse Sincere Awkward Dungeons

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.”

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Author:Joan D. Vinge

“I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.”

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Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.”

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Author:Kristen Wiig

“I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.”

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Author:Stuart J. Russell

“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.”

“Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.”

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Author:John Assaraf

“I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.”

Thinking Way Humans Curiosity Unrest

Author:Brit Marling

“I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.”

Thinking Way Humans Actors Human Beings Havens

Author:Brit Marling

“I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.”

Thinking Knows Humans Goodness Surprise Badness Where You Stand

Author:David Morrissey

“I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.”

Thinking Humans Matter Character Enjoy Human Beings Substance

Author:Ezra Miller

“I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.”

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Author:Joe Mantello

“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.”

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Author:Yuri Milner

“I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.”

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Author:Andie MacDowell

“I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.”

Thinking Humans Ends Enough Human Beings Contact Agents

Book:Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

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Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.”

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Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.”

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Author:Townes Van Zandt

“I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.”

Thinking Trying Humans Prove Tendencies

Author:Veronica Roth