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  • I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking. -- Robert Goulet
  • I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff. -- Trey Parker
  • I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas. -- Nick Park
  • Don't waste your time thinking about things you can't change, live in the moment -- Sarah alhussinan
  • Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on? -- Ray Romano
  • If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. -- Bruce Lee
  • We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein
  • I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies. -- Wallace Shawn
  • If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it. -- Sergio Aragones
  • I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. -- Gavin Bryars
  • People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI. -- Peter Thiel
  • I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels. -- John Irving
  • I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. -- Harold Prince
  • Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into. -- John Kluge
  • I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona. -- Phil Knight
  • Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be. -- Christopher Jones
  • You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future. -- Piper Kernan
  • When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid. -- Meryl Streep
  • Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too. -- James Patterson
  • Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton. -- James Cash Penney
  • Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days. -- David Maine
  • SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. -- Philip Greenspun
  • If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. -- John Malkovich
  • I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America. -- Tracey Ullman
  • To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries. -- Dror Benshetrit
  • Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. -- Dean Kamen
  • It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things. -- Evan Davis
  • Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. -- Joan D. Vinge
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  • I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking. -- Bo Derek
  • I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. -- Carl Sagan
  • I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. -- Alanis Morissette
  • The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships. -- Tom Rath
  • In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • You got me thinking bout us having us some babies Everything about love got me like Baby come home and put it on me tonight. -- Jamie Foxx
  • You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others. -- Bryant McGill
  • Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head. -- Magnus Carlsen
  • With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge. -- Lauren Oliver
  • When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again. -- Natalie Massenet
  • Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent. -- Monica Ali
  • Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. -- Adriana Lima
  • We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions. -- Brian Greene
  • I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking. -- Kate del Castillo
  • Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity. -- Ernesto Cardenal
  • Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself. -- Holly Near
  • The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing. -- Woody Allen
  • ...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out. -- Kelley Armstrong
  • One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing. -- Joseph Altuzarra
  • When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking. -- Ben Sollee
  • Whoa, you got my head in the cloudsWhoa, you got me thinking out loudThe more you dream about me the more I believeThat nothing's ever out of reachSo dream, dream, dream -- Miley Cyrus
  • I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. -- Bob Riley
  • I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him? -- Mort Walker
  • I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely. -- Katie Featherston
  • I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter. -- Ned Vizzini
  • I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that. -- Caroline Dhavernas
  • In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right. -- John Kasich
  • Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. -- Earl Nightingale
  • When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
  • I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal. -- Eva Mendes
  • Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it. -- Gore Vidal
  • I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain. -- Cory Arcangel
  • All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. -- Sarah Zettel
  • His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs. -- Colson Whitehead
  • I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about. -- Wendy Kaminer
  • The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough! -- Shannon L. Alder
  • When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next. -- Matthew Brannon
  • I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell. -- Harry Chapin
  • My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences? -- Charles Fort
  • I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom. -- Frederick Douglass
  • I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it. -- Edmund Hillary
  • The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all -- Adele
  • My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. -- Amy Winehouse
  • The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it. -- Mario Batali
  • I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book. -- Christopher Paolini
  • In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet. -- Dan Rosensweig
  • Most faculty spend a lot of time thinking about content and what to cover, but content delivery is not the core strength of a university, just as it is not for newspapers. The core strength of a university is integration. -- José Antonio Bowen
  • ~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~ -- Katie Holmes
  • That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is? -- Richie Sambora
  • I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child. -- Garth Nix
  • I have been lucky and have a tight relationship with my daughter even if I don't see her as much as I did before but it got me thinking about all different women's situations - and what there wouldn't be without us. -- Lisa Maffia
  • I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that. -- Crystal Reed
  • I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic. -- Bill Orcutt
  • It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. -- Sam Donaldson
  • Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. -- Mark Haddon
  • Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day." -- Sam Donaldson
  • Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology. -- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
  • After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed. -- Kristian Bush
  • Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary. -- Ewan McGregor
  • But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future... -- John Green
  • I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain. -- Christine Quinn
  • For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under. -- Taylor Swift
  • For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under. -- Taylor Swift
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  • "Let is Roll" is like - well, it was like me thinking of a human being in its purest form. That form being a baby where there's nothing there - well, unless I guess you believe that something comes along attached. It depends on what you believe. -- Ladyhawke
  • I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams. -- Susan Estrich
  • My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me. -- Ian MacKaye
  • I had a list of about 35 restaurants, 25 of which were fast-food joints all around Los Angeles and I didn't get a quarter through the list. It just became me thinking about going to these places and wanting to enjoy the food and food just not being enjoyable anymore. -- Colin Farrell
  • I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done. -- Hugh Laurie
  • I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate. -- Samuel R. Delany
  • Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. -- Joseph Campbell
  • Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. -- Alanis Morissette
  • I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going. I started thinking about all the bikes I've had stolen, and that got me thinking about crime, and that got me thinking about the city I'm in. -- Jess Walter
  • Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living. -- Mariella Frostrup
  • Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar. -- J. Robbins
  • As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. -- Chris Ware
  • People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa. -- Helmut Jahn
  • For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. -- Don DeLillo
  • What gives me strength is thinking about my children. -- Ken Kercheval
  • Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. -- Isaac Asimov
  • I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy. -- Rachel Weisz
  • You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' -- Spike Jonze
  • Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. -- Alexander Herzen
  • My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences. -- Howie Mandel
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