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“Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt.”

People Ifs Book Ideas Ends Use Might Would Be Culture Stars Attention Creativity Imagine Rocks Sells Shirts Designer Jeans T Shirt Rock Star Printed Attention Span Shampoo Printed Word

Author:Jim Trelease

“Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.”

People Ifs Imagine Judgment Knives Imagine That

Book:Arguably

Source: Arguably

“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.”

People Needs Feels Trying Moments Felt Realizing Attention Brain Focus Imagine Plans Worst Stage Happenings Calm Terror Consistent That Moment Surprising Thread Surviving Worst Moments

Author:Amanda Ripley

“The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.”

People World Way Has Beens Real Nice Imagine Crazy Huge Circles Crush Wheels Being Nice Family Life Spinning Migration

Author:Ruben Martinez

“Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.”

People Littles War Ends States Order Nations Imagine Singing Sitting Absence Civil War Empires Anarchy Sitting Around Lennon Campfire

Author:Niall Ferguson

“To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.”

People Knows Way Political Social Secret Environment Imagine Reasoning Conspiracy Political Life Secret Society Political Environment

Author:Umberto Eco

“As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn't mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.”

People Thinking Believe Mean Real Ability Imagine Real Life Video Awful

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.”

People Knows Made Song Imagine Fields Eating Possession Spoons Insufficient Lennon Cambodia

Author:Sophal Ear

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.”

People Want Culture Lost Imagine Cookbook Substitution

Author:Mark Millar

“If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.”

People Ifs Feels I Can Imagine Sick

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.”

People Want Country Reason Government Imagine Groups Circumstances Stronger Complexes Minorities Other Countries Influential Nostalgic Central Government

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.”

People Trying Firsts Wells I Can Different Acting Imagine Who I Am New Things First Love Different Peoples Music Love I Love Music

Author:Brandy Norwood

“I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Mean Persons Stills Kids Certain Bits Term Know How Imagine Failing Fronts Singers Labels Broke Urges Shade Shells Bike

Author:Le1f

“I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.”

“There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.”

People Ifs World Enough Bigs Reality Happens Born Cases Imagine Minutes Effects Believer Things Happen Restraint Puppets Predestination Big Changes

Author:Neil Peart

“Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.”

People Way Doe Wish Imagine Blessing Good Things Rejoice

Author:Amy Poehler

“The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.”

People Littles Stills Home Christian Christ Memories Imagine Magic Changed Walking Expectations Bounds Fairy Cartoon Brownies Disney Cartoon

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.”

Source: Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist

“I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.”

People Men Way Writing Long Courses Literature Novel Imagine Capacity Vices Magazines Comic Caves Vice Versa Comic Strips Atrophy Pictorial Neanderthals

Author:William Faulkner

“Well, I think here there is some money gathered, especially in Europe, through the web, through connection to a network. I mean, imagine that in Brussels there is only one person, one single person, which is monitoring the traffic that goes on on the internet for the jihadist groups. In Strasbourg there are two people. So I mean you can imagine how easy it is to raise money through the net.”

People Thinking Wells Mean Persons Two Easy Imagine Groups Goes On Internet Europe Connections Raises Imagine That Traffic Single Person Monitoring Brussels

Author:Loretta Napoleoni

“I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.”

People Thinking Imagine Willing Shapes Practicals Robots

Author:Colin Angle

“In the dream state, the mind and soul are set free to create as they please, to imagine vast worlds not tied to gross sensory realities but reaching out, almost magically, to touch other souls, other people and far-off places, wild and radiant images cascading to the rhythm of the heart's desire.”

People World Mind Heart Soul States Dream Reality Desire Imagine Please Rhythm Reaching Reach Out Tied Gross Radiant Sensory

Book:Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

Source: Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

“People of the world, the time for decision is short. It is measured in a few years. The choice is ours as to whether or not we will pay the price of peace. If we are not willing to pay it, all that we hold dear will be consumed in the flame of war. The darkness in our world today is due to the disintegration of things which are contrary to God's laws. Let us never say hopelessly this is the darkness before a storm; rather let us say with faith this is the darkness before the dawn of the golden age of peace, which we cannot now even imagine. For this, let us hope and work and pray.”

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

“Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake. ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception. ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!”

People World Believe Humans Different Energy Mistake Watches Fate Imagine Amount Agree Exception Different Worlds Err Is Human

Author:Veronique Vienne

“I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.”

People Reason Young Artist Certain Dies Imagine Worst Dangerous Lucky Imagine That Die Young

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.”

People Ifs Littles Important Names Sound Loses Imagine Thousand Band Important Things Series Forty Associates Unison

Author:Brian Molko

“Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.”

People Pain Imagine Unkind Kind People Inflicting Pain

Book:The Guermantes Way

Source: The Guermantes Way

“If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.”

People Ifs Humans I Can Important Human Beings Imagine Depends Asking Institutions Cups Respectful Competitiveness

Author:Tom Peters

“Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly.”

People Want Trying Courses Interest Pay Mistake Imagine Huge Cost Six Highest Strategy Rate Expensive Lots Of Money Loan Interest Rate

Author:Dan Ariely

“First and foremost, my hats off to our directors and camera department. That is something I will miss after Longmire. I can't imagine working on another show that looks like this. We'll get the whole crew out on location and have a hundred people standing around, waiting for about 40 minutes, so that sun is just a little bit further in the sky and the light is hitting the cloud, in the perfect way.”

“When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.”

People Writing Persons Imagine Thirds Third Person

Author:Emily Gould

“If we could stop wasting food, imagine how many more people we could feed!”

People Ifs Imagine

Author:Dana Cowin

“It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.”

People Knows Persons Sometimes Whole Would Be Kids Imagine Ordinary Single Person Wheelchairs Auditoriums

Author:R. J. Palacio

“I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'”

People Way Remember Used Sex Imagine Drug Tools Come Up Boxes Dump Remember Me Tool Boxes

Author:Robin Williams

“I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.”

“I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine”

“My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.”

People Writing Believe Ideas Father Sound Imagine Achieve Advice Taught Authority Hot University Pursue Publishing Journal Topics Good Advice Academia Superhuman Stardom Hot Topic

Author:Robert J. Shiller

“A lot of people do what their families do. Imagine if everyone in the family is a doctor and they decide to become an actor. Then people have to make those choices for themselves and their art and what they believe in.”

People Ifs Believe Art Choices Actors Imagine Doctors

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.”

People Ifs Different Happens Jobs Imagine Grew Grew Up Gun Backgrounds Shooting Different Directions Different Backgrounds

Author:Todd Solondz

“The waves get high, they get low. It's been a wonderful journey, every bit of it, and that's from every praise to every criticism... To be able to able to hang around athletics for a lifetime and to meet all these wonderful people I've come in contact with, to have been around as many big events as I have, I can't imagine a day when I did not have something to make me happy about sports.”

“I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you.”

People Believe Moments Opportunity Given Imagine Offers Extraordinary Don't Believe Golden Granted I Don't Believe You Don't Take Anything For Granted Golden Moments

Author:Anne Hathaway

“The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.”

People Needs I Can Would Be Purpose Imagine Products Ideals Robots Vacuums Cleaners Gadgets Cupboards

Author:Colin Angle

“You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.”

People Thinking Knows Able Imagine Minutes Dumb Rope Skip

Author:John Irving

“These were the things that the government supplied you with - in turn, of course, demanding obedience. But you must not imagine that it was a constant feeling of outrage that was in the minds of people and the hearts of people.”

People Mind Heart Feelings Government Turns Courses Imagine Constant Obedience Imagine That Outrage

Author:Stefan Heym

“When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"”

People Pieces Imagine Please Get Up Awful Thank God Crap

Author:Bono

“People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.”

People Thinking Looks Made Whole Bigs Film Process Term Simple Imagine Easier Cost Happenings England Dollars Studios Finance Budgets Movie Sets Wrong Words

Author:Eric Fellner

“I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid.”

People Knows Want Imagine Imagine That

Author:Andrew Dominik

“As you can imagine when you have to summon a force like that together, the opposing elements are pretty freaking gnarly. I would think of those pioneer movies where they've got the cook and the ladies loading the guns and firing at the surrounded wagons. I don't put Coulson in that category, I think he is on the upper tier of people who come to scrap at situations like that but everybody's involved.”

People Thinking Together Force Situation Imagine Involved Elements Gun Cooks Categories Pioneers Opposing Scrap Firing Wagons Gnarly

Author:Clark Gregg

“There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.”

People Believe Country Hate Imagine Worst Imagine That Sophisticated Hate You

Author:Margaret Thatcher

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