- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
By nature, I am someone who hews to the middle. I need to hear all sides of a story. Unless I am engaged in a tough round of dominoes or Scrabble, I think of myself as unreasonably reasonable.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren't that many millions of people in all of Sweden.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020