Thinking Quotes

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare.

I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

Rarely does a candidate think ahead and take the time to understand what the hiring company's priorities are, and then carefully presents himself as a 'solution' to the company's existing gaps/needs.

: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.

Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.