Thinking Quotes

I think that different things sell in different countries.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

I don't think anyone can ever put into words the great things (Joe) DiMaggio did. Of all the stars I've known, DiMaggio needed the least coaching.

I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.

I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.

I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the hour.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region.

I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.

John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.

I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.

I think we just have to remember who the heck we are and speak to who we are and what we believe.

The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right.

And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.

Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

I think I enjoy my job more now than I did when I started. When I started in 1996 on a national level, I was 27 and part of me was scared to death.

I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

I think most people associate me with my dad.

I think he [Tony LaRussa] legitimately believes what he says. I don't agree with him. But I think he's being as honest as he can be.

I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.

I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.

I honestly think that a Pavlik fight would be easier than Jones because styles make fights. He's one dimensional, comes in straight lines, I love that.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

She thinks that he looks like Elvis, when he runs his fingers through that jet black hair.

I hear from everybody, and they say Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense. Were not hired to fight.

I think that the people in Indiana want to see more jobs, more opportunity. And they want to make sure that Washington listens to them.