Thinking Quotes

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

I think we need a huge dose of love.

For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

We accept the love we think we deserve. please help me to recognize the truth about myself,no matter how beautiful it is.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.