Thinker Quotes - Page 17

• I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.

  Dean Spade

  Students, Daily Life, Strive

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• Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

  Martin Frost

  Independent, Delay, Fighter

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• It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who gets bald on the crown of his head is a lover. It follows, certainly, that a man who gets bald all over his head thinks he's a lover.

  L. M. Boyd

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.

  Gary Goodyear

  Jobs, Home, Ideas

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• Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.

  Marina Warner

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

  Mary Henle

  Creativity, Creative, Detached

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• I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

  Julia Child

  Long, Belief, Conservative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

  Mos Def

  Children, Independent, Support

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• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Atheist, Real, Order

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• The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Paul Ryan

  Mistake, Fighting, Would Be

  "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand's ideas: in the hot seat again". atlassociety.org. April 30, 2012.

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• I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

  Aravind Adiga

  Originals, Listeners

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

  Allen West

  Military, Years, United States

  "Rep. West fired up over government overregulation". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2012.

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• The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Talking, People, Rubbish

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• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Play, Skills

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2003.

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• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  E. O. Wilson

  Achievement, Enlightenment, Justified

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.72, Vintage

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• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  Naomi Wolf

  Baby, War, Feminist

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• For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Writing, Ukulele, Controversy

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• The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.

  Ron Wyden

  Opportunity, Land, Entrepreneur

  "My Letter to the Internet" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Ideas, Two

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

  Steven Pinker

  Radical

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• Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Philosophy, Writing, Criticism

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• I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Writing, Trying

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• I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Google, Brain

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