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• I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

  Jimmy Carter

  Years, Thirty, Years Ago

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.

  Jewel

  Song, Serious, Different

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• There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Different, Emotion, Cliche

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• Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

  Simone Elkeles

  Two, Chocolate, Peanut Butter

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• As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

  Russell Brand

  Littles, Doubtful, Persons

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• As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Mind, Privilege

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.

  Steve Coogan

  Sex, Real, Shy

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

  Alain de Botton

  Sleep, Mind, Information

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own.

  John Carroll

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

  Paul Schrader

  Thinking, Directors, Legacy

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• I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Character, Antisocial

  "Longmire's Katee Sackhoff on Finally Playing a Character Who Has Her Shit Together". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 06, 2012.

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• I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

  Charles M. Blow

  Kids, Quiet

  "After Childhood Abuse, 'Times' Columnist Says He Chose Life Over Vengeance". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2014.

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• I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Travel, Garden, Cities

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• Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Drama, Self, Silence

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• Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  People, Mind, Asking

  "Bachelor Girls".

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• Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Believe, Mind, Essentials

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

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• Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, People

  Nick Hornby (2012). “More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself”, p.27, McSweeney's

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• They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

  Marc Edwards

  Littles, Sometimes, Lyrical

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• If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

  Van Morrison

  Giving, Want, Stretching

  "Van Morrison goes country on new CD". Billboard interview, www.today.com. March 11, 2006.

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• One thing I've become is introspective.

  Chamique Holdsclaw

  One Thing

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• Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Successful, Sight

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• I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.

  Tom Ford

  Jobs, Hate, Thinking

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• I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

  Anne Heche

  Dark, Thinking, Want

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• I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Zero, Real, Drinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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