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time
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be. Samuel Beckett
thinking fundraising people
The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff. Sally Schneider
thinking important eating
I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
territory slave states
No more slave States; no slave Territories. Salmon P. Chase
tickets disneyland
Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket! Sally Ride
thinking space risk
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
thinking people orbit
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
talking people should
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
travel adventure history
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
thinking careers weapons
I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career... Salma Hayek
thinking people trying
Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.
thinking media people
I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.
thinking proud pay
Sometimes I decide not to make something because I am proud and think I am better than that - and then I realise I have to pay the rent and I have to take something which is even worse than all the other stuff they offer you because you were being so proud not to take it! But you adjust and sometimes for one reason or another there is no strategy at the end but there is the ability to do the best that you can with what you have.
thinking shopping sweaters
My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
thinking vanity giving
I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
thinking vision adjusting
I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things.
thinking domestic-violence against-violence
Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
thinking people trying
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
two fables india
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. Salman Rushdie
thinking veils way
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
taken rude levels
It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
thinking critics knows
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
thinking agency doe
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
thinking long information
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
thinking trying literature
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
thinking people consciousness
Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
thinking language forgotten
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
thinking people use
I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.
thinking worry quality
I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting.
thinking needs entity
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
taken decision snapshots
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.
taken firsts steps
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
thinking doors imagination
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.