#think

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life. ↗

— Mo Yan

#circumstances #difficult #difficult circumstances #i #i think

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#business #doing #fellow #gone #i

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable. ↗

— La Monte Young

#enormous #fact #had #i #i think

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets. ↗

— Neil Young

#i #i think #living #need #now

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. ↗

— Toby Young

#contempt #failure #itself #more #people

I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here. ↗

— Toby Young

#british #chef #culture #food #go

And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years. ↗

— Robin Yount

#brett #friends #george #good #good friends

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#lot #nuts #people #straight #straight people

I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#art

The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dagger #death #framed #guilt #guilty