- Know
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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
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, 'I want to come here when I don't have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.' Because I think it was just a magnificent place.
- Certain Extent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you pass 70, you forget your enemies. You think about the nice people instead.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that what we should do is have short, clipped conversations on the telephone so someone can always get us, not talking about inane stuff and having someone trying to get you. I also think we've just got to be more sensitive toward other people and not call them at night if you know they've been working.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know so much about making it, because I think of myself as a working actor who's always got my eye on what's going to be the next job. I've been acting for 22 years, and I think there's something to be said for simply staying in the game.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020