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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"Think of what you desire out of life."
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"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."
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"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."
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"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
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"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."
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"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"
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"But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement."
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"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
Parenting
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."
Time
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I have been drawing all my life."
Life
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
Family
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
Nothing
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
Time
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