Thinking About You Quotes - Page 3

• About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.

  Carl Zimmer

  Stuff, Way, Viruses

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. [...] You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Judging Yourself, Want

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?

  Kehinde Wiley

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, People, Happens

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

  Freddie Highmore

  Character, Caring, Self

  "Freddie Highmore Talks ‘Toast,’ Working With Helena Bonham Carter And Growing Up". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

  Story Musgrave

  Future, Science, Night

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Feelings, Terrible

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.205, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

  Flavia Weedn

  Dream, Fall, People

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• With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Selfish, Humility, Eye

  Speech to the Bar Association of Boston. "Speeches". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., p. 85, 1934.

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• It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

  Conor McPherson

  Responsibility, People, Lasts

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. Posted on.

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• You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  Kerry Washington

  Thinking, May

  "Starting point with soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

  Thornton Wilder

  Employed, Whole, Knows

  Thornton Wilder (2007). “Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater”

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• I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Mother, Kids

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• It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, People, Surprising

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.331, Random House

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• No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

  Helen Fielding

  Thinking, Like You, Overactive Imaginations

  Helen Fielding (2009). “Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Reduction, Interest, Ifs

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.60, Macmillan

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• All I can think about is bed.” “We’re sharing the same thought.” “You’re thinking about bed too?” “I’m thinking about YOU in MY bed.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Bed, I Can, Patch Cipriano

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Raven: So Alexander, now we know what we do all day. What do you do? Alexander: I spend it thinking about you.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Ravens, Knows, Alexander Sterling

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• I want you to have this.” He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots on the wings glinted in the sunlight, and a silver chain hung from a small hole drilled into its body. Valek looped the necklace around my neck. “When I carved this statue, I was thinking about you. Delicate in appearance, but with a strength unnoticed at first glance.” His eyes met mine.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Eye

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.336, MIRA

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• What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you." "Why? Was kissing me that bad?" A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sorry, Wine, Kissing

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• You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time." "I've been thinking about you, too." "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Sick, Want

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• But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

  Haven Kimmel

  Thinking, People

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• If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational Life, Race, Efficiency

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• Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." But here's the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  Kerry Washington

  Badass, School, People

  Kerry Washington's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Hands, Long

  Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”

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