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I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

It is not your business to love me. It is mine.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.