Thinking Quotes

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

We can not be naive and think we can go it alone.

They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you'd even die for them, is a great subject.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

I wouldn't say it's competitive. I think everyone has their time. Gisele is having her time, and Shirley had her time, and maybe I will have my time.

I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect.

I think you have to be fair with one another. It's unfortunate when someone does something that's not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.

I think it's a beautiful thing how Hip Hop is received by the world.

It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern"

I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young.

I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in content period.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

I never think any place is better than others.