Thinking Quotes

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I'm not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off.

I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.

Seventy-five percent of Americans don't even have passports. We don't even think about traveling beyond our borders.

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

I don't think Muslims do hate America. I think that's what we hear and that's what we believe. I don't think that's true.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.

In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.

I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

I don't think fascism is dying for.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.

You can't be judgmental. You have to do your best not to be, I think.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

Learning to never quit and keep going is the biggest thing. I don't think it was ever an epiphany, I think that's just the most important thing that has worked for me: to keep going and keep trying.

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.

I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.

I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.

I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any sense to talk [Peter] Makhno to an American.

Everyone thinks, "Oh, it'd be easy to just go scout a game." It's not. Because you end up watching the game and not actually focusing [on scouting].

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns.

If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

When polo is used as a platform to give back, then it becomes much more beautiful, I think.

I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.