“I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.”
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“I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.”
“If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.”
“Think of God more often than thou breathest.”
“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus”
“I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.”
“I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.”
“Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.”
“I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."”
“If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.”
“We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.”
“I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.”
“Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.”
“When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.”
“What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.”
“Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.”
“I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it.”
“What men say: I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong. What men think: I'd love a Chipwich. I should go get one.”
“Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938”
“People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think, are more indicative of problems with some things going on at the frontier of physics than ideas that are gonna last.”