Thinking Quotes

I think the world has moved on.

I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential, I think it should be the issue of water.

I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions.

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

I think that's something that Oprah [Winfrey] and Ava [ DuVernay] do seamlessly. They know how to connect to people and they know how to share our stories. To be a part of that is a blessing.

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.

Sometimes the more you think about an outfit the worse it gets.

I understand that drugs aren't for everybody, I think it's an issue of personal freedom of choice.

I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

I think deconfliction with the Russians is probably the maximum that we can do. But deconfliction is enough to prevent us killing Russian soldiers when we are attacking the Assad regime.

I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

I like to take my time and not try to put too much pressure on myself, but it's hard. I think I forget every time - you give birth and you want your stomach to be flat again.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

I think that in terms of the American interests, I would feel more safe with a President Trump representing those interests to the world.

You want the president to be uninfluenced by any factors other than his advisers and the best interests of the United States. I think, on that category, Donald Trump easily beats Hillary Clinton.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

I think there's an innocence to me.

I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.

I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.

I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.

I've definitely grown, and I think I've done enough stuff that people might look at me only as Veronica Mars. But honestly, I really don't mind if they do.

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.

I think that we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected.

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don't know that I'd say I'm a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.

Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to put into the films.

I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller.

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’