Thinking Quotes

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.

I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time." I often leave auditions thinking that that person is now permanently mad at me.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.

I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid.

[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

I think so much of the look, obviously including wardrobe, but the hair is a huge thing because it's basically the frame for your eyes and that's the window to your soul is what they say.

I hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

For us, we just start with the character. We think of Stifler, and that usually just leads to something that's outrageous.

I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean, I've already done my best books, so I'd like to just make something I also like now.

I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything.

I’m glad the UFC wanted to work with me as well, and I think that they trust that I’ll never make them look bad. You never have to worry about me with a DWI or doing something crazy

I get fired up when emotions are involved. I think it pulls a little bit of extra out of me.

The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.

Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody.

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

I think if we really break it down and talk about post-traumatic stress disorder, it's very different than the way Sarah Palin explained it.

I think that Sarah Palin really missed the chance to educate the public on what some of the challenges her son is actually facing.

Not only did I feel hurt that she [Sarah Palin] sort of misdiagnosed all of these veterans, but I think she sort of was wrong in the way she talked about the issue.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

Honestly, folks, I think my brain is broken.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

[John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.

I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

'Powell movement.' What do you think 'PM' stands for?

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

The important thing is, that I guess I don't spend any time thinking about what I am or what we do means. I spend my time doing it.