Think Quotes

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.