Quotes with thinking--not

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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Beck Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Bud Grant Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bud Grant Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Golda Meir Being seventy is not a sin.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Robert Wilson Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Bjork Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Buddha Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buddha Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Robinson Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Better not be at all than not be noble.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Annie Besant Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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