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“I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn’t matter. It does matter and it’s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we’ve all cut them too much slack for far too long.”

Thinking Long Doe Country Matter Acting Too Much Cutting Republican Voting Carolina North Carolina Pissed Off Homophobes

Author:Armistead Maupin

“I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.”

Ifs Thinking Long Running Natural Cities Issues Development Economics Attractive Expensive Neighborhood Long Runs Smarter Evident Seattle City Life

Author:Stone Gossard

“Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.”

Thinking Long Problem Groups Long Time Good Things Als Bin Laden Punctuation Prognosis

Author:Peter Bergen

“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.”

Thinking Knows Feels Long Book Character Dream Novel Know How Air Towns Breaths Never Quit Undone Unwritten Hovering Book Of Disquiet Prologue

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.”

Thinking Feels Long Art Soul Moments Able Goal Ability Secret Oneness Readiness Realisation Inhale Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“That special bond you think you have with your pet is imaginary. As long as it has food and water, you could get hit by a train tomorrow, and your pet wouldn't think anything of it.”

Thinking Long Water Animal Special Tomorrow Train Pet Imaginary

Book:You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”

Ifs Thinking Long States Government Able Growth Term Ability United United States Economy Obligation Long Term Global Economy

Author:Charles Bass

“To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”

Thinking Mind Long Helping Difficult Majority Medicine Arguing Something New Sugar

Author:Jason Gann

“Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.”

Thinking Believe Wells Looks Long Matter Done Girl Levels Behinds Cash Believe In Me Towers Register That Girl

Author:Christine Lavin

“I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Long Has Beens Company Records Trouble Products Sells Record Companies Overcharging

Author:Black Francis

“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

“Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.”

Thinking Long I Can Body Age Games Records Higher Pressure Athlete Fighter Recognition Japan Constantly Thinking

Author:Takeru Kobayashi

“Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.”

People Thinking Way Wells Long Turns Talking Economy Cutting Policy Rate Feds Stimulus Better Ways Monetary Monetary Policy

Author:Franklin Raines

“I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.”

Thinking Long Attention Tweet Attention Span

Author:Nick Rhodes

“I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.”

Thinking Humans Looks Long Has Beens Technology Development Projects Long Time Lifetime Remarkable Fascinated Science And Technology Iceberg Genome Tip Of The Iceberg

Author:Nick Rhodes

“Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.”

People Thinking Want Years Long Acting Long Time Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.”

Thinking Long Past Couple Hundred Stores Teeth Bucks Cds Playlists

Author:Dave Willis

“As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.”

Thinking Years Long Home Running Night Games Winning Interest Saving Occupation Perpetual Long Runs Amusement Amusing Impart Unbecoming

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.”

“The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.”

Thinking Long Social Change Danger Standing Rate Determined Speed Experts Customs Pace Speeding Cultural Change Speeding Up

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“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

“Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Long Play Able Wish Attention Environment Rocks Instruments Train Guitar Musical Divides Solo Guitarist Guitar Playing Train Of Thought

Author:John Frusciante

“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Thinking Knows Wells Long Mother Pay Attention Careers Focus Periods Intense Long Periods Of Time Professional Career

Author:David Plotz

“I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.”

People Thinking Mind Littles Long Bigs Might Used Levels Attention Company Deeper Bother Cycles Lots Of Money Underestimate Underestimated Big Companies

Author:J. Robbins

“There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack.”

Ifs Thinking Long Ideas Wanted Term Havens Safe Gun Barriers Target Als Software Afghanistan Pakistan Pledge Allegiance Entry Al Qaeda Linux Safe Haven Operating Systems

Author:Paul Gigot

“Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live.”

Thinking Way Trying Long Forever Diversity Hopefully Ballet

Author:Misty Copeland

“Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.”

Thinking Should Long Done Mother Birth Abortion Provision Bans

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells Long Use Able Values Can Do Position Balls Commit Naked Shock You Can Do It Lit Feels Right Push Ups Shock Value

Author:Charlize Theron

“Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.”

Thinking Should Long Growth Term Strategy Debt Long Term Packages Short Term Reduction

Author:William J. Clinton

“Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.”

Thinking Firsts Long Life Is Women Please Aim Gender Educated Sincere Never Expect

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.”

People Thinking Long Self Running Tiny Delusion Long Runs Fractions Self Delusion

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.”

Ifs Thinking Long Happens Would Be Records Humour Humorists

Book:Our American Humorists

Source: Our American Humorists

“Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.”

Thinking Long Whole Body Language Long Time Ears

Author:Maya Angelou

“The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.”

Thinking Long Important Secret Accepting Safe Sacred Appearance Contrary Limitation Secrecy Convenience Propose Deliberation Deviate

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Long Hard Reason Answers Opinion Heard Ears Faults Critics Patient Impression Mistaken Censure

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.”

Thinking Men Feels Long Has Beens Stills Women Numbers Slave Prepared Coward

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.”

Thinking Believe Long Past Cases Progress Periods Painter Absurdity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.”

Thinking Knows Long Painting Please Harder Frustration

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.”

Thinking Men Long Reason Force Acting Struggle Function Contrary Preserves Features Appropriate Description Extinction Adverse

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.”

People Thinking World Long Life Is Song Forever Rounds Determine Graves Mortals Endeavor Thrones Sermons Crave Wreaths

Book:The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Source: The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Long Matter Happens Together Past Common Luck Common Sense

Author:Richard Petty

“Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.”

People Thinking Should Long Waiting Levels Subjects Economics University

Author:Robert Duvall

“So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.”

Thinking Feels Long Real Possibility Ignorance Wind Blow Ships Being Real

Book:Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

“It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.”

People Thinking Long Book Written Compliment

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.”

Thinking Feels Should Long Term Forget Vision Cases Honestly Practicals Long Term

Author:Dalai Lama

“I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.”

Thinking Long Would Be Lost Alive Baseball

Author:Roberto Clemente

“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

“What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.”

Ifs Thinking Should Children Long I Can Book Hard Asks Be Good Ask Me Children's Books

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.”

People Thinking Wells Heart Kind Long Okay Critics Corny Good Heart

Author:Walt Disney

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Writing Wells Long Real Hard Found Space Novel Novelists Things To Do Desperate Symptoms Discouraged Hard Things

Author:Maxwell Perkins

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