Thinking Quotes

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just "no" on everything.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

One of the reasons people love Joe Biden is he just kind of says what he thinks. He's a guy whose heart is on his sleeve, and that's one of the things people love about him.

I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.

We all have opinions and I don't think you need to apologize for your opinions.

I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.

If somebody comes before me and I think that they will do a good job in fulfilling the mission - even if I might not have nominated them - if I think they're gonna do a good job, I vote for 'em.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

I think in matters of relationship, intimacy, reproduction, sexuality, I think that people should make their own choices, and we should allow people to make their own choices.

I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.

I think it is really really important that those of us who have deep-faith lives don't feel like we could substitute our own views for everybody else in society regardless of their views.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

I love human aggression. I like it in myself, I think. As far as something to get out, I believe that everybody has it in them, so I like to be an outlet.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

The world's problems make us think about who we are and where we stand, and how we measure up.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.

I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me.

I think every company is set by who founded it and who's in charge.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?

You know, I think He honestly does care about how we play on the field, more than anything more than win or lose our hearts on the field.

I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing.

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.