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“I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Long Done Wish Know How Periods Aviation Predictions

Author:Vannevar Bush

“I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Real Country Whole Body Brain Attitude Car Stupid Periods Activity Dear Scared Drivers Dear Friend Pavement Many Friends Change Your Attitude

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.”

Thinking Long Waiting Brain Silence Watches Periods Studios Recording Studio Dribble

Author:Jack Black

“I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.”

“I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.”

“I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.”

“I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.”

Thinking Hard Taken Poet Periods

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.”

Thinking Looks Long Realizing Periods Bigger Species Fossils Adapting Long Periods Of Time Bigger Picture

Author:Louise Leakey

“I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.”

Thinking Different Real Games Periods Holes Genre Rapper Gangsters Pigeons Different Directions Versatile

Author:Freddie Gibbs

“I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.”

Ifs Thinking Sound Black Can Do White Imagine Color Periods Silent Bounds Mediums Filmmaking Black And White Entering You Can Do It Flexible Switching

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.”

Thinking Needs Stills I Can Different Sometimes Moving Turns Next Opportunity Mistake Five Week Minutes Periods Performances Defeat Five Minutes Different Times Time Periods

Author:Filo Tiatia

“There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.”

Thinking Wells Kind I Can Done Courses Becoming Periods Elements Yeah Edges Familiar Bored Feds Outsiders Typical Retrospect Fed Up

Author:Brian Eno

“I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'”

Thinking Want Feels Wells I Can Ideas Sometimes Done Moving Certain Particular Periods Mood Consistent Exploration Imaginative Moving Away

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“[Sometimes] I will go through periods where I will think 'Oh maybe I should do a commercial movie' and then I just think, someone gave me a really great piece of advice, someone from my agency weirdly, they said the only clients that are happy are the ones that just do what they want to do. So I just kind of do everything for myself.”

Thinking Want Should Kind Said Sometimes Pieces Advice Periods Agency Clients They Said Really Great

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.”

Thinking Years Kind Ends Hard Felt Bits Realizing Months Periods Training Tired Nine Recalls Underworld Nine Months Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.”

People Thinking World Different War Periods War Of The Worlds Different Things Second World War Think Different Different Day

Author:Nicholson Baker

“There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.”

Thinking Made Stills Left Answers Periods Mark Scary Load

Author:Noel Gallagher

“We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.”

Ifs Thinking Should Kids Nations Imagination Break Mom Dad Periods Should Have Legs Inches Plastic Accountants Helmet Mom And Dad Time Periods Scooters

Author:Ramin Bahrani

“I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.”

People Thinking Important Different Feelings Together Team Personality Periods Training Madness Factors Distraction

Author:Larry Dixon

“So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.”

Thinking Country Interest Periods Unusual Polling

Author:Jim Bolger

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.”

People Ifs Thinking Stuff Quality Periods Delighted Think Of Me

Author:Andrew Davies

“From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.”

People Thinking Way Want Littles Stories Bigs Moving Audience Periods Drama Hunger Nostalgia Rebel Sentimentality

Author:Andrew Davies

“Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

Thinking Knows World Humans Looks Light Comedy Awareness Periods Demand Human Life Tension Adages Lighters Lightness Languish

Author:James Thurber

“Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Feels Seems Age Today Order Individual Voice Alive Middle Periods Ears Folks Contemporary Who We Are Historian Middle Ages Chaucer

Author:Terry Jones

“Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand. But it wasn't that specific fact that they weren't there that got me to think about this in the first place. It's not what led to the basic idea for the film, although it became apparent when I began to think about it.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Ideas Facts Film Courses Periods Fascism

Author:Michael Haneke

“You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.”

Thinking Form Actors Bits Periods Areas Lazy Terrific Sportsman

Author:John Hurt

“The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.”

Thinking Writing Years Doe Book Happens One Thing Months Periods

Author:Charles Stross

“I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.”

People Thinking Long Waiting Results Numbers Talking Situation Our Lives Periods Sitting Advantage Tests Cancer Delight Labs Right Direction Sitting Around Long Periods Of Time

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I'm thrilled because I think that, you know, everyone has gotten what they wanted. You know, I just wanted to be (there) surrounded with the best actors period.”

Thinking Knows Wanted Actors Periods

Author:Debra Messing

“I find it funny that people who didn't think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation. This is nothing like the 1970's, which was a pretty dismal period and not just because of polyester and disco.”

People Thinking Talking Periods Inflation Disco Pipeline

Author:Barry Ritholtz

“I've been a professional for I think 13, 14 years. It's not easy hitting balls every day and staying really motivated throughout the whole period. It's normal [that] you're going to have ups and downs. But I found my way again. And I love the sport. I love competing. I love battling. I love being out there and playing in front of crowds. This is what I've been doing since I was a child. There's nothing else that I want to do.”

Thinking Way Want Years Children Whole Found Easy Sports Love Is Fronts Periods Normal Balls Crowds My Way Staying Motivated Hitting Competing Ups & Downs

Author:Jelena Jankovic

“I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.”

Thinking Feels Artist Periods Honestly Appreciated

Author:Ne-Yo

“I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!”

Ifs Thinking Reason Facts Periods Fallen

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.”

Thinking States America Song United United States Periods Standards Songwriting United States Of America Great American Zenith

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.”

People Thinking Feels Should Enough America Laughing Like You Periods Angry Entertainment Spending Upset Pretending Time And Money

Author:Richard Shepard

“I think this is the beginning of a really cool period in music because what we've been living through has been mostly super-testosterone rock, and there's nothing wrong with testosterone but it is damn boring.”

Thinking Has Beens Rocks Periods Music Is Boring Damn Really Cool Testosterone

Author:Sam Endicott

“Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.”

Thinking Guy Fronts Periods Standing Backgrounds Glances Scenery Think Of Me Sneak

Book:How to Build a House

Source: How to Build a House

“Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.”

Thinking Wonderful Periods Drama Pie One Love Format Upstairs Marshes

Author:Ellie Kendrick

“Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.”

Thinking Whole America Spirit Can Do Gone Source Periods Limits Optimism Strikes Disaster

Author:Peter Beinart

“I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.”

People Thinking Years Kind Hard Running Process Poverty Achieve Hard Work Periods Incredibles Starting Humble Fortunate Severe Humble Yourself Running A Business

Author:Patrick Grant

“I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.”

Thinking Should Long Moments Lasts Artist Loses Situation Gone Periods Songwriters Your Mom Mojo

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“Large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst investments after long periods of winning.”

Thinking Long Made Important Winning Term Loss Worst Emotional Periods Investment Profit Insidious

Author:William Eckhardt

“As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.”

People Thinking Needs Helping Running Lasts Certain Opportunity Gone Wonderful Periods Charity

Author:Emma Watson

“The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.”

Source: Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976

“I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.”

Thinking Knows Mind Has Beens Book Age Reading Century Periods One Day Buying Italian Fashionable Book Reading Renaissance Flowering Great Minds Italian Renaissance Buying Books

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.”

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

“I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.'”

“My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”

Thinking Writing Long Simple Habit Periods

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early throes of an idea there is for me only grammar of the mind, which is a flow of thought, as natural and precise as the flow of a river to the sea.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Natural Worry Sea Periods Flow Rivers Precise Grammar Spelling Punctuation

Author:Mary O'Neill

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