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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany.

The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

The wheels in my brain are turning and I assure you a lot is brewing up in my head!

The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

They could put Hillary Clinton's brain in a jar in the Oval Office, and she'd be elected. People are really sick.

They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible. Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.

...Things happened when you were little. Things you don't remember now, and don't want to. But they need to escape, need to worm their way out of that dark place in your brain where you keep them stashed.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Those who grew up digital have different brains.

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the universe itself and all the beings within it are ultimately going.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.