“I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.”
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“I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.”
“I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.”
“You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.”
“My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.”
“Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.”
“To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.”
“If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.”
“Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.”
“One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.”
“I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.”
“I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.”
“But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.”
“It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.”
“The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.”
“We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.”
“I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don`t see why it wouldn`t apply to the president.”
“I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.”
“Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.”
“One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.”