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“I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think it's a lie to say that the president lied to the American people. I sat on the Robb-Silverman Commission. I saw many, many analysts that came before that committee. I asked every one of them-I said, 'Did-were you ever pressured politically or any other way to change your analysis of the situation as you saw?' Every one of them said no.”

People Thinking Way Want Said Lying Politics President Situation Saws Aspect Debate Analysis Sat Criticize Disagree Committees Lied American Life Analysts Pressured

Author:John McCain

“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Feelings Romance Literature Attention Serious Standards Critics Beach Topics Unworthy About Family Double Standard

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I think it's a very shallow thought to think creative people can't do business. I am as proud of the fact that our magazine has a commercial success as I am that we're a critical success. I want people to realize that I'm very strategic in how I run Bazaar.”

People Thinking Running Realizing Creative Proud Shallow Creative People

Author:Glenda Bailey

“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.”

People Thinking Kind Book President Attention Trump Discipline Empathy Evidence Adults Praise Ill Oneself Available Active Mediums Evening Starks Markers No Empathy

Author:Ben H. Winters

“I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.”

Thinking Years Problem School Science Teach Approach Research Doctors Valuable Medical Diagnosis Medical School Valuable Things

Author:Gertrude B. Elion

“I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Looks Worry Waste Motive Racist Bad Things Wasting Time Supportive Sexist

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.”

People Thinking World Looks Kind Character Today Black Growth White Wonderful All Kinds African American Wonderful Things Outlets Today's World American Character

Author:Darius McCrary

“I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.”

Thinking Wonderful Wonderful Times

Author:Reba McEntire

“I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.”

Thinking Art Film Artist Black Wonderful Exciting Filmmaker Good Times Black Women Breaking Down

Author:Ava DuVernay

“I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.”

Thinking President Clinton Gender Competent

Author:Natalie Portman

“I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it.”

People Thinking Mean Style Judging Like You Shapes Appreciate Weight Appearance Intellect Frustrated Exclusive Advocating

Author:Alexa Chung

“I think it's about time that we represent all women on the catwalk because that is a part of fashion. The way I see it, there's no wrong way to be a woman.”

Thinking Way Fashion Wrong Way Catwalk

Author:Denise Bidot

“I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just...you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.”

Thinking World Way Trying Persons Fun Geek Being Cool Cool Person

Author:Shirley Manson

“I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.”

Thinking Religion Gave Up

Author:Lenny Bruce

“I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little game we are playing in the middle is not helping us, it is not helping Mexico and it is causing massive violence on our southern border... Fifty percent of the money going to these cartels is coming just from marijuana coming across our border.”

People Thinking Littles Helping Games Behinds Violence Middle Percent Bars Borders Fifty Smoking Massive Southern Marijuana Mexico Cartels Legalizing Marijuana

Author:Glenn Beck

“I think it's about time! Who cares whether he is looking for votes or not! At least your country is moving forward with the times!”

Thinking Country Care Moving Gay Vote Moving Forward Who Cares Gay Marriage

Author:Barack Obama

“I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.”

Thinking Knows Purpose Destiny Blessing Curse Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Lady Gaga

“I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.”

Thinking Sides Security Staying Cheeks Organisation

Author:Boris Johnson

“I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.”

Thinking Country Path Clear Cancer Deficit Analogies

Author:Erskine Bowles

“I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb and evolve, and I think more often than not we are squashed, the older we get.”

Thinking Creativity Ready Essentials Wide Evolve Sponges

Author:Audra McDonald

“I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.”

Thinking Knows Giving Dream Grows Growth Know How Elements Majors Fantastic Combination Filmmaker

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.”

Thinking Stills Roles Arms Soldier Fascinating Afghanistan Parliament Berlin German Soldiers

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation.”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Able Song Term Situation Cases Limitation Songwriting Territory Uncharted Uncharted Territory

Author:Richard Thompson

“I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.”

Thinking Fighting Causes Absurd One Time

Author:Huey Newton

“I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.”

People Thinking Wells Kind Littles Has Beens Bigs Comedy Drama Actresses Comedian Perceive Comedic Misperception

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.”

Thinking Kind Stories Effects Sweet Reciprocal

Author:Chelsea Manning

“I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Values Felt Forget

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I think it's all a coincidence. I've pitched some poor games here and got a no-decision. But just give me the ball. I don't care where I pitch.”

Thinking Giving Care Games Decision Poor Balls Give Me Don't Care I Don't Care Coincidence

Author:Jamie Moyer

“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Courses Careers Teach College Photography Draws Absolutes Nonsense Royal

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“I think it's all independent films. There aren't any! If they were looking for me when I was making Polyester, then it'd be perfect, but they're not. I'm not looking for that. TV is much bigger and better now; far more people see it.”

People Ifs Thinking Film Perfect Tvs Bigger Independent Independent Film Better Now Bigger And Better

Author:John Waters

“I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”

Thinking Lovely Hallucinations

Author:Jack Kerouac

“I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.”

Thinking May Country

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“I think it's almost a unique control that artists can have now more than they ever did, I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you - so how comfortable are you with people putting their own two cents on it?”

People Ifs Thinking Want Two Artist Comfortable Unique Cents Proactive Two Cents

Author:Lizzy Plapinger

“I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.”

Thinking Want Sides Dark Focus Indulgence Dark Side

Author:Rob Brydon

“I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.”

Thinking Age Young Grows Stuff Acting Growing Up Life Experience

Author:Josh Duhamel

“I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.”

Thinking Games Draws Chess Definite Chess Game

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh”

People Thinking Laughing Cry Easier Making People Laugh

Author:Sophie Marceau

“I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.”

People Thinking Enough Faces Wish Hurt Situation Honesty Immoral Rotten Vindictive Facing The Truth

Author:Johnny Carson

“I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.”

Thinking Impossible Middle East Experts Middle East Rapids Rapid Change

Author:Abdallah II

“I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.”

People Thinking Seems Church Levels Christianity Behavior Creating Adults Victim Calm Awful Norm Participating

Author:Richard Rohr

“I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous.”

Ifs Thinking States Seems Political Nations Church Party Dangerous Favors Establishment Political Parties

Author:Mario Cuomo

Source: Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984

“I think it's alright if the government wants to say, in the state of Massachusetts, in the state of New York, in the state of California, that civil ceremonies should be accepted, I think that should be fine. I don't think that even those states that believe in civil marriages between homosexuals or ordained in a church should perform civil ceremonies.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Believe States Government Church New York Fine Accepted California Homosexual Ceremony Alright Massachusetts

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I think it's also different when you're younger, too and your whole life is exposed. You know, it is probably exhausting and a little spiritually depleting, but you just find ways to fill up and do things For me it's simple things.”

Thinking Knows Way Littles Different Whole Life Is Simple Whole Life Exposed Simple Things Exhausting

Author:Kate Walsh

“I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.”

Thinking Play Film Challenges Novel Mediums

Author:Julian Fellowes

“I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two things. One is, you definitely have to have surprises and changes so that people are - you keep them interested, you take them down roads that they didn't expect and give them suspense and surprise.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Wells Two Stories Challenges Surprise Storytelling Hopefully Suspense Two Things Down The Road Good Storytelling

Author:Kimberly Peirce

“I think it's always been an arrangement that had political objectives and goals, which is fine. Get married for whatever reason you want, as far as I'm concerned.”

Thinking Want Reason Political Goal Fine Married Concerned Objectives Arrangements

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think it's always been very natural. I don't write a diary - it's reflections and thoughts and feelings that come to me at a certain point, and when I go back to my old records, they capture the time I was in then.”

Thinking Writing Feelings Natural Reflection

Author:Anna Ternheim

“I think it's always best to be who you are.”

Thinking Who You Are Be Who You Are

Author:Halle Berry

“I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.”

Thinking Way Political Nations Dangerous Argument Treats Ideological Traitor Political Arguments

Author:Adam Michnik

“I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.”

Thinking Matter Character Difficult Mindset

Author:Asa Butterfield

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