Quotes by Thinking When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual caught up in the sublimity of a revolution then things are very different and the Kantian ethic is shown to be limited in its value. Alison Assiter differentmatterthinking However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook. Alison Assiter common-humanityperspectivethinking I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic. Alison Assiter dress-codedressesthinking I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'. Alison Assiter politicalbelievethinking People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. Alison Bechdel readingbookthinking Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming. Alison Bechdel writingfunthinking I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are. Alison Brie flawedcharacterthinking I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need. Alison Brie importantneedsthinking I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect. Alison Brie too-lateneedsthinking Obviously, the 'Glow' show is a real feminist story. I knew it would be about female empowerment, and that was really exciting to me. Having some distance on a period show, I think you can really delve into those kinds of political topics in an in-depth way, and a lot of that reverberates today. Alison Brie distancerealthinking I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response. Alison Brie linespastthinking A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that. Alison Brie los-angelespeoplethinking By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars. Alison Croggon lightblowthinking I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar. Alison Croggon liarslove-youthinking I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck Alison Croggon hawksstuckthinking The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued. Alison Fell sightanimalthinking Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about. Alison Goldfrapp singingpeoplethinking I think making an album is a difficult thing. Alison Goldfrapp difficultalbumsthinking You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it. Alison Goodman motherlyingthinking I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being parents and being children in the way that they might have and are going to spend a lot of time fretting and worrying and being hovered over for nothing. The question isn't so much "What will happen in the long run?" but "What's happening to people's lives right now?" Alison Gopnik runningchildrenthinking«141142143144145146147148149150151»
