"This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes."
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"What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities."
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"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."
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"There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order."
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"I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own."
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"It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently."
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"I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time."
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"Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album."
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"I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever."
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"Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime."
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"Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits."
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"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing."
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"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."
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"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."
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"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."
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"I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day."
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"I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table."
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"I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them."
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"Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought."
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"Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'"
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