Thinking Quotes

The one thing that I really want, ... is for our second group to be an energy unit. That's what we had in our championship run, and that's what I think you are starting to see with this group.

Most people think of themselves as individuals, that there's no one on the planet like them. This thought motivates them to get out of bed, eat food and walk around like nothing's wrong.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.

I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.

I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.

I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

People do always try to smoke pot with me. But I think some of those people are cops.

I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.

Also I can come up with new bits - people yell stuff out and it's a new subject or a subject that I've been thinking about that I haven't done onstage yet and I'll just run with it.

I’m afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.