“I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 655 of 4756
“I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.”
“Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.”
“I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and I wasn't raised in our present culture but it has great pressure that as a young person I never had. Material pressure, social pressure, visual pressure, how you look, and I just try to appeal to young people to think for themselves, to be their own person, and to ask questions and also be very attentive to our planet and our environment.”
“I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.”
“I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.”
“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.”
“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”
“If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.”
“What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.”
“I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.”
“Christianity made us think there's one heaven.”
“I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.”
“I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.”
“Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.”
“I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.”
“I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.”
“The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.”
“I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.”
“I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.”