Quotes about thinking
thinking law people
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy. Alan Dershowitz
thinking requirements would-be
I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one. Alan Dershowitz
thinking giving important
I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion. Alan Dershowitz
thinking people finding-yourself
Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'' Al Yankovic
thinking editors mad
I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature. Al Yankovic
thinking media new-media
I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover. Al Yankovic
thinking nerd culture
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. Al Yankovic
thinking track way
I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical. Al Yankovic
thinking years people
In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me. Al Yankovic
thinking laughing trying
I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it. Al Yankovic
thinking rocks rock-n-roll
I think my chances of getting into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli's. Al Yankovic
thinking attention pay
I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same. Al Yankovic
thinking
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think? Alain de Botton
thinking people matter
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves. Alain de Botton
thinking names worry
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me? Alain de Botton
thinking good-thinking
Most good thinking has its origin in fear. Alain de Botton
thinking self-hatred ifs
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great. Alain de Botton
thinking mind demand
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand. Alain de Botton
thinking disrespect gazing
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. Alain de Botton
thinking ideas nervous
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. Alain de Botton
thinking people normal
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well. Alain de Botton
thinking opposites anxiety
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. Alain de Botton
thinking return different
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. Alain de Botton
thinking winning next
I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right. Al Davis
thinking christ reason
The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. Al Goldstein
thinking careers people
Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense. Al Franken
thinking net-neutrality way
I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started. Al Franken
thinking want
I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals. Al Franken
thinking government rights
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. Al Franken
thinking data kind
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent. Al Franken
thinking law worry
Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should. Al Franken
thinking axes iran
I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president. Al Franken
thinking media oil
Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important. Al Franken