“All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 167 of 303
“Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.”
“If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.”
“Do you cherish your humble and silky life?”
“A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.”
“Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.”
“I really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to make that - it's not a generality and I don't want to say that, but I just feel - I know I do the same thing. There are certain things that I just am not that interested in. Certain kinds of films - I just don't enter them.”
“The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.”
“The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.”
“But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.”
“Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.”
“Why try to pursue what is completed?”
“Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.”
“People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.”
“People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.”
“Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.”
“While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.”
“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.”
“You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play”
“You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.”