Thinking Quotes
58012 quotes by 15869 authors
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
— Raymond Chandler
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys…
— Raymond Chandler
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I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned.…
— Jimmy Carter
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
— Jimmy Carter
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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was…
— Jimmy Carter
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I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,…
— Jimmy Carter
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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul,…
— Jimmy Carter
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I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I…
— Jimmy Carter
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