“I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 886 of 4756
“I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.”
“I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.”
“I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.”
“When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.”
“I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.”
“People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.”
“I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated.”
“I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.”
“I like to make people think.”
“I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.”
“Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.”
“I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.”
“I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.”
“I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.”
“When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?”
“For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.”
“I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital about that exchange. I think I'd only imagined, beforehand, handing down a feminism to a young girl. But I'm newly excited by the challenge of raising a boy.”
“Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.”
“I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.”