Top 100 Quotes About Thinking Too Much

#1. It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Tim Winton

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#2. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.

Virginia Woolf

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#3. I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

Dash Mihok

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#4. I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.

Richard Coyle

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#5. I can't help it, Alexis," he said "I want to make you think too much ... and then I want to hear the things you've been thinking too much.

Katie Alender

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#6. Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.

Joe Hill

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#7. Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Clint Eastwood

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#8. And then, because I'm now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don't want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.

Jennifer Niven

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#9. I think that's one of the biggest problems in rock is people thinking too much, putting too much emphasis on getting things perfect or completely sorted out. Sometimes that sound of not having everything sorted out is kind of cool.

Stone Gossard

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#10. My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Sylvia Plath

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#11. Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

Norman Rockwell

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#12. It'd be a mistake," Lee said. "I think maybe you have to make a few," Merrin said. "If you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.

Joe Hill

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#13. You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

Joy Bryant

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#14. The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

Mario Batali

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#15. Yet now, having held in grief and resentment, and evaded thinking too much about the episode that changed my life with the finality of an axe, here I am exalted by having made use of it, by having spilled my guts in public. We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.

Wallace Stegner

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#16. The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her, said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.

L.M. Montgomery

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#17. Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens.

Zoe Trope

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#18. Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.

Steve Martin

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#19. It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me.

Sasha Mizaree

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#20. Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

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#21. I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

Kristen Stewart

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#22. When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.

Greg Norman

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#23. Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

Olivia

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#24. She struggled not to show this. Already, that dream on the grass had faded in her memory. It was as if she'd worn it out by thinking too much about it. But in the moment, it had felt so real. Kestrel couldn't quite believe that it hadn't been.

Marie Rutkoski

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#25. Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Blaise Pascal

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#26. Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

Tom Watson

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#27. Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do.

Ryan Robbins

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#28. You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you.

Nora Roberts

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#29. So let's not ruin this by thinking too much about tomorrow. Don't make a wonderful weekend into a bad Monday.

James Patterson

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#30. One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.

Jay Leno

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#31. Thinking too much has been my problem for a very long time.

Rick Yancey

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#32. Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It's important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.

Robert Herjavec

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#33. The danger all goalkeepers face is thinking too much, that the nature of their position gives them time to dwell on doubts.

Jonathan Wilson

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#34. Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

Malcolm Gladwell

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#35. You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#36. Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

Desmond Tutu

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#37. As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called "good self-esteem." But self-esteem is
an art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much of
ourselves.
The name for thinking too much of ourselves is "egotism.

Richard N. Bolles

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#38. I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably ... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

Dr. Seuss

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#39. Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

Dwyane Wade

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#40. I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

Natalie Dormer

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#41. I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

Novak Djokovic

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#42. As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

Bobby Jones

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#43. Thinking too much about what happened and what is about to happen will wear you down. Live in the moment and take it one step at a time.

Howard E. Wasdin

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#44. The aim is to get someone to want to buy quickly, without thinking too much about it.

Robert B. Cialdini

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#45. Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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#46. Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.

Derek Jeter

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#47. I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.

Will Ferrell

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#48. If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed.

Daphne Guinness

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#49. The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think.

Richard Bandler

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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#51. We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

Garrison Keillor

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#52. I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

St. Lucia

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#53. When you notice an unhelpful emotion or a shift in mood, or when you notice that you're doing something you know can cause problems (being snappy, for example, or drinking too much), that could act as a cue to examine your own thoughts - "what am I thinking?".

Peter Kinderman

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#54. I try to do something good, but when it doesn't go good, then I go like too much into myself, what I'm doing right, wrong, instead of thinking more what I have to do with the ball,

Dinara Safina

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#55. How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Teresa Of Avila

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#56. I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.

Rachel Weisz

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#57. Not everybody can create a foundation that's worth a billion dollars, but all of us can figure out those things we do. I really think God loves us too much to give us an assignment we don't enjoy doing.

Max Lucado

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#58. I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#59. I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

Missy Franklin

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#60. What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

Neill Blomkamp

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#61. If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Francis Quarles

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#62. I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.

Leonard Ravenhill

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#63. Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.

Javier Marias

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#64. I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

Milton Resnick

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#65. Most of the time I'm thinking of you
All of the time I love you
Remembering the good times and the bad
So much as
Happened and
Maybe I'm loving too fast
All I know is I ...
Love you. And want to
Live with you
Only you
Will you be my wife?

Monica Murphy

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#66. Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

Mindy Kaling

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#67. I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do
what I did.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#68. I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short ... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.

Chang-rae Lee

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#69. Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

Brett Gelman

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#70. I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn

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#71. I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.

Tom Waits

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#72. I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was ... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

John Amaechi

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#73. In tactics, no information is better than too much ... because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

Giovanni Guidetti

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#74. Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

Maureen Connolly

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#75. No. Just thinking about how much my life sucks." "Mine does, too. Sucks big-time. But I'm glad I'm with you.

James Dashner

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#76. I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

Michel Gondry

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#77. In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

Gertrude Stein

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#78. If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Lord Chesterfield

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#79. What I love about the tours is the day to dayness of it all.. you meet so many people and travel so much in such a short period of time and it's always so concentrated and focused that it stops you thinking beyond the box too much. I love things that absorb you completely.

Ben Howard

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#80. I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!

Tim McGraw

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#81. Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

Mariella Frostrup

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#82. There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.

Colleen Chen

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#83. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

Albert Einstein

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#84. Actually, most people don't think I have too much sense because I would rather be fairly intelligent and act dumb instead of not having any sense at all and try to act smart.

Phil Robertson

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#85. You can't think about what you're going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you're not bringing anything to the party. So I don't lie awake thinking about what I'm going to do workwise. There's just too much going on.

Bill Murray

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#86. Nate hated, really hated, being told he thought too much. Jason wasn't the only one who said it: hippie-dippie types who romanticize the natural and the "intuitive" also prefer feeling to thought. But not thinking was a way of giving oneself license to be a dick.

Adelle Waldman

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#87. It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

Steve Case

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#88. Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Lydia Lunch

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#89. Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood but we've also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.

Jackie French

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#90. Gisela couldn't be thinking as much about kissing him as he thought about kissing her or she wouldn't be able to fall asleep. With her in his arms, he was too restless to think about anything but her.

Melanie Dickerson

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#91. When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

Anthony Hopkins

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#92. I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.

Sarah Dessen

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#93. The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

Kevin Garnett

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#94. Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

Robert Wyatt

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#95. One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Horace Walpole

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#96. I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.

Eva Mendes

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#97. No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

Sophia Amoruso

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#98. If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.

Nora Ephron

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#99. Too much thinking can make a person ill at ease.

Art Hochberg

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#100. I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

Stephen Chbosky

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