Quotes with thought-forms

Quotes 841 till 860 of 957.

  • David Mamet We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Ben Foster We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bobby Farrelly We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Toni Morrison We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
    The Bluest Eye (2014) 138
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bob Lilly We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.
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  • Byron Howard We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Andy Wachowski We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Buzz Osborne We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Butch Trucks We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Mann We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Becky Stark Well then you thought that the end was in sight
    And then you thought there was nothing to fight
    But you had opened your heart with your mind
    Oooh here comes one.
    Imagine Our Love Here Comes One
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • A. E. van Vogt Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Abigail Adams Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Barry Humphries What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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