Thinking Quotes

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

I think more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.

As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.