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“The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.”

Thinking Years Kind Persons Made Stills Lasts Film Absurd Repeats Walt

Author:Leonard Maltin

“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

Thinking States Lasts Three Hours United United States Saws Week Minutes Media Average Radio Variety Surveys Electronic Media

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.”

Thinking Way Today Pain Lasts Century Changed Amount Treats Patient Cancer Enormous Relief Providing Physicians Psychics Solace Pain Relief Treating Patients

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”

Thinking Lasts Used Support Cost Band Paid Our Family Fund Gigs Misfits

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Next Actors

Author:Josh Peck

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Stills I Can Stories Lasts Courses Lines Honest Possibility Finished Rewriting Foolproof

Author:Amy Hempel

“I think a composer is always interested in his last work.”

Thinking Lasts Composer

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.”

Thinking Lasts Five Minutes Notion Silly Farmers Five Minutes

Author:Matthew Rhys

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Said Lasts Mother Chance Sorry Unfair Exes First Person Ex Boyfriend Your Ex

Author:Lily Rabe

“Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.”

Thinking Lasts Fans Meetings Confused Association Speakers Cartoonist Editorials

Author:Ted Rall

“I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, “What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?” Like, everyone collectively decided, “We’re done!” Over time I got more confidence.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Done Lasts Used Decided Wake Up Yesterday What If Last Day Analytics Pinterest

Author:Ben Silbermann

“I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Enough Dream Kids Lasts Sports Player Journey Lucky Tennis Bonus

Author:Samantha Stosur

“As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.”

Thinking Way Jobs Lasts Form Actors Shapes Screws Going To Work

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.”

Thinking Feels Years Persons Doe Wanted Jobs Lasts Father Interesting Losing Divorce Chapters Rebirth Going Through Divorce

Author:John Stamos

“I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.”

People Thinking Men Important Whole Lasts Names Groups Special Roots My Family Thinking Man

Author:Mark Sanchez

“As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.”

Thinking Way Years Jobs Lasts Strong Clear Changed Mom My Mom Owners Good Job Small Business Changed My Life Business Owners Small Business Owners Strong Family

Author:Tim Scott

“Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Body Lasts Night Relationship Honesty Not Sure Considering Last Night Bisexual Gender And Sexuality

Book:Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

“All actors think every job will be their last.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Actors

Author:David Morrissey

“I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.”

Thinking Long Shows Lasts Five Connected

Author:James MacArthur

“When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.”

Thinking Way Should Real Eye Lasts Issues Saws Changed Promise Built Agendas Last Time Documentaries Orthodoxy Pandora Open Eyes

Author:Owen Gleiberman

“I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live!”

Thinking Years Lasts Born Growing Up Growing Team Fans Dad Mad My Dad Likes Golden Enjoyed Eras Loud League Champion Village Last Year Shouting Liverpool Champions League Liverpool Fans

Author:Theo Walcott

“Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.””

Thinking Years Lasts Stuff Middle Listening Rap Relate Last Year Irrelevant Opulence

Author:Lorde

“When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”

People Thinking Years Long Made Bigs Lasts Term Interesting Mistake Company Too Much Bases Excited Long Term Native Big Things Mobile Introspective Apps Betting Biggest Mistake Androids Ios

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.”

“The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.”

Thinking World Lasts Danger Creating Fairs Architecture Parks Theme Superficial Civilisation Precursor Theme Parks

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.”

Thinking Lasts Six Adults Thirty Pleasant

Author:Matt Roper

“I was disappointed not to be able to sign [for Barcelona] last season. When the best club in the world calls you, then it is something that you want to happen. I have signed for the only club who really wanted me. In no moment did I ever think that Inter was a possibility. Rafa valued me and perhaps that is why people started saying that I could go there but this is the only club that pushed to sign me.”

People Thinking World Want Moments Happens Able Wanted Lasts Possibility Seasons Clubs Disappointed Barcelona

Author:Javier Mascherano

“As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.”

Thinking Years Lasts Changed Twenties Marginalized Older Women

Author:Melinda McGraw

“The best music of any era lasts well, I think.”

Thinking Wells Lasts Eras

Author:Peter Asher

“Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.”

Thinking Years Littles Long Lasts Half Developing Publishers 1960s

Author:Dan DeCarlo

“Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.”

Thinking Stills Together Lasts Desire Technology Magic Fine Becoming Computer Theater Going Away Becoming More Movie Theater Secluded Last Place

Author:Wolfgang Petersen

“I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.”

People Thinking Said Ideas Real Matter Lasts Night Song Culture Girl Left Situation Subjects Albums Pops Pop Culture Subject Matter Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.”

Thinking Men Two Lasts Artist Talent Painting Painter Muse Brushes Trios

Author:Robert Breault

“Heaven'll be our last move!-No baggage, no luggage, no hard journey, no packing, no long travel! It may be a long way, but it may be closer than you think!”

Thinking Way May Long Hard Lasts Moving Heaven Journey Heavenly Long Way Baggage Packing Luggage Hard Journey

Author:David Berg

“I think Supernatural is the last WB show that's still on the air. It came from The WB and transitioned to The CW. I've been with The CW from the start of The CW, and it says a lot for our network and for our studio that they stood by the show and continued to keep the show high on their priorities list.”

Thinking Stills Shows Lasts Air Studios Lists Priorities

Author:J. Robbins

“I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.”

People Thinking Feels Enough Seems Happens Jobs Lasts Teaching Projects Things Happen Fantastic Fortunate Get Better New Friends Toppings

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.”

People Thinking Mind Firsts Would Be Wanted Earth Lasts Film Planets Casts Blow Boxes Unexpected Planet Earth

Author:Alicia Keys

“Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.”

Thinking Lasts Friendship Negative Superiority

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.”

People Ifs Thinking World Years Persons Bigs Lasts Deals Millions Imagine Impact Developing Last Year Big Deal Smartphones

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!”

Thinking Moments Bigs Lasts Birth Periods Horror Conscience Filled Plot Anxious Intervals Filled Up

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Lasts Born Mines One Day Understood Praise Affection Delight Sentences Immortality Understand Me True Family

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.”

Thinking Matter Reality Lasts Emotion Forever Proud Illusion Mirrors Analysis Parks Gray Stomach Signals Amusement Transmit Glands Amusement Parks Gray Matter

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Reality Lasts Asks Example Changed Couple Climate Decades

Author:James Lovelock

“I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.”

Thinking Years Kind Has Beens Lasts Honesty Painting Proud Twenties Paint Painter Behave

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.”

Thinking Years Able Lasts Opportunity Sides Growth Five Percent Mirrors Earning Labs Great Opportunity Dip Mirror Image Earning It

Author:David L. Katz

“Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.”

Thinking Reason Lasts Class Months England Reason Why Bowlers

Author:Glenn McGrath

“We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.”

Thinking Feels Should Firsts Believe Pain Lasts Joy

Book:Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

Source: Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

“Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.”

Thinking Motivational Lasts Moving Night Opportunity Forget Positive Positive Thinking Skills Yesterday Monday New Beginnings Last Night

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.”

People Ifs Thinking Long War Lasts Fighting Kings Conflict

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

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