Thinking Quotes

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them.

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I think the human species is very suicidal.

I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.

I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.

We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in places just beginning their lives.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.