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Thinking Quotes


"The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking."


"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."


"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."


"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."


"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."


"It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking."


"Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed."


"All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom."


"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."


"Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs."


"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."


"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."


"Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign."



"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."


"We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't."


"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'."


"I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile."


"After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations."


"You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in."


"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."



"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."


"It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains."



"Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!"


"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."


"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."


"In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe."


"Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'."


"Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly."


"I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish."


"All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible."


"My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path."



"The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that."


"When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself."


"So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together."
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