"People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan."
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"I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself."
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"I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable."
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"Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do."
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"I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me."
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"I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think."
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"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."
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"The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there."
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"I fully realize that every promise I make, the Republicans will double and the Democrats will redouble. They think this will make me vulnerable, but they don't know I have some tricks up my sleeve, along with a box of raisins to munch on while I'm waiting for the returns to come in."
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"The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service"
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"It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else."
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"I think Donald Trump is dividing the American people. He is not good for America. It's not good for our standing in the rest of the world. To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it's just ... it's just wrong."
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"Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly."
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"When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
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"The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner."
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"Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It is our duty to look for deeper meanings in the Quran in order to increase our knowledge and experience. The Quran wants your intellect to be always active and trying to approach the message of God. God himself dedicated this book to people who think."
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"I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine."
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"Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society."
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"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think."
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"Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you."
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