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My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.
The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
If I was on Game of Thrones, I think the nudity and sex questions would probably get irritating, but this is a show about sex.
The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
I think guys overtrain and they burn out. And also just knowing what your body needs. Again, I think rest is really important.
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.
I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.
I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty, it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my case, it did.
I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.
I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.
I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.
I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
I like Lady Gaga's music and I think her fashion is great, but I saw her on a chat show and I wanted to punch her in the face.
I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.
I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.
Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'
and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.
You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.
My mom told me she thinks a man in the market felt her up today. I asked, Where did he touch you? She said, On my knee, Bobby.
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.
We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.
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.
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.