Thinking Quotes

• I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.

  

  Dave Wakeling
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Perspective

• Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demanding. You have to be mobile. You have to move to different places for your post-doc training. And if you aren't successful, it isn't a very pleasant job, either.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • Different
  • Moving
  • Training

• I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Mean

• One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Democracy

• To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking
  • Chain
  • Reads

• What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Novel

• Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Movie

• Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Fun
  • Dream
  • Bigger

• Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Art

• I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • American

• I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Guy
  • Stop
  • Desperate

• For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites. It's so childish, really, but that might be simply what it is.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Family
  • Why
  • Deep

• If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

  

  Arthur Lydiard
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Endurance

• Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

  

  Jane March
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Death
  • Facts
  • Atheism

• I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Language
  • Adventure

• We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • People
  • Kind
  • Moments

• It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Heaven
  • Foolish
  • Entering

• I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Thinking
  • Dad
  • Stock

• I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Ends
  • Imagery

• I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Hate
  • Hell
  • Circles

• I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.

  

  Chester Burnett
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Water

• In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.

  

  John R. Bush Armored Saint
  • America
  • Band
  • Attitude

• Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

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