Thinking Quotes

I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.

I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.

I'm afraid that what most people don't know about me is that I'm very close to my brother and sister, who are 16 and 13, and I think I'm a pretty good big sister to them.

You don't want to just preach to people; you want to get them emotionally involved, and I think you do that with a wonderful human story about one person's struggle.

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions

I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and give it back around again.

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.

However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!

Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?

The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory.

If anyone thinks Indian Muslims will dance to their tune, they are delusional. Indian Muslims will live for India. They will die for India. They will not want anything bad for India.

Just because India is a large country, we cannot be arrogant and think that we can ignore others. We live in a different era.

I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter.

A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.