"As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."
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"It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do."
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"We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information."
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"Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better"
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"I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers."
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"Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress."
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"I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics."
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"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
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"Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds."
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"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."
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"I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent."
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"I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer."
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"If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough."
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"Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries come from a tradition of empire, and also from a tradition of the strong state."
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"If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them."
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"I think I deserve something beautiful."
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"When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?"
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"We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character."
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"When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that."
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"When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't."
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