“I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 842 of 4756
“I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.”
“I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.”
“Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.”
“I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.”
“We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?”
“I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.”
“Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.”
“I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.”
“Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.”
“We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.”
“I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.”
“I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that.”
“It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix.”
“I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet.”
“I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away.”
“I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.”
“The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.”
“I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!”
“I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.”