"You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done."
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"Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head."
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"Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made."
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"The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd."
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"It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question."
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"How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it?"
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"In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear."
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"The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive."
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"Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier."
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"I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind."
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"The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional."
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"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."
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"Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of."
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"There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were."
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"If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with."
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"I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth."
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"My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do."
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"I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to."
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"The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school."
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"If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him."
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