Thinking Quotes - Page 568

Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

I've always been a youth advocate. I mean, that's been my brand, reaching out to young people. All my life, when I've dealt with youth I'd be thinking back to my own experience. Now I look at my kids and think forward.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

And I laughed so hard I think I died

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.