“I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 897 of 4756
“Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...”
“If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.”
“I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.”
“I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.”
“When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.”
“When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.”
“I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.”
“I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.”
“I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.”
“There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve never had any bad encounters with any of it.”
“The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.”
“Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.”
“I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.”
“Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.”
“If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.”
“Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made-on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.”
“...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.”
“You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?”
“I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.”