Thinking Quotes

Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

You think you know who you are and then other people have these other ideas.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.

Utah is so wonderful. My greatest memories of Utah are of always being outdoors. It's a very athletic environment that I think gave me a lot of drive to be fit and live well.

Sometimes you have to think about what you're going to say, in real life, so when you see that thought process going on in a movie, it feels real and looks real.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

I think at the end of the day you have to find a balance with what's really important.

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.

I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.

Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.

I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.