“Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 112 of 303
“There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.”
“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
“Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
“Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.”
“A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.”
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
“There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.”
“In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.”
“Many argue; not many converse.”
“I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.”
“It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.”
“That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.”
“We never listen when we are eager to speak.”
“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”
“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”
“I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.”
“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”
“It is maybe not the best choice to have a favorite anything.”
“Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.”