“I think that in a family some are workers some are not. I certainly saw my mother work very hard and be in charge and never show any kind of fear about business deals. Her golden rule was you should never be embarrassed talking about money and asking for what you deserved. I take the same view.” ThinkingShouldKindHardShowsMotherViewsDealsTalkingSawsAskingWorkersGoldenEmbarrassedGolden RuleTalking About MoneyBusiness Deals Author:Anne Robinson
“I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.” PeopleThinkingArtSeemsAnswersArt IsAsking Author:PJ Harvey
“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.” PeopleIfsThinkingSelfJobsUsedActorsCan DoKnowingFrontsSpeechConsciousAskingCamerasNervesFuneralSelf ConsciousEulogy Author:Eddie Marsan
“I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.” ThinkingWantWellsShowsCertainRocksAskingDown AndCastsJumpingUp And DownWant You Back Author:Sherri Shepherd
“People are always asking what's the secret of my success, and the answer is easy - at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive. If you don't have a goal or purpose to strive for, I don't think that you have much of a life. You've got to have something to do that you want to apply yourself to - that's what living is all about.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantPurposeStrongEasyGoalAnswersSecretAskingStriveSecret Of My Success Author:Aaron Tippin
“Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.” PeopleThinkingMindWellsMayDoeMightResponsibilityTalkingIssuesOughtAskingEthicalTriggersDiscomfortConvenienceEthical Issues Author:Richard Stallman
“At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsChildrenShareFairsAskingRaisesInequalityAddressesMassiveRevenueElderlyFair Share Author:Bernie Sanders
“It's a lot of accumulated joy and tension and all kinds of emotions just pouring out of all us. We've all been preparing for this day and we all knew that one day we would just have to move on with our lives and careers even though we all love this show and love working together. But it's still an incredibly emotional time, especially for me with a lot of journalists asking me how it feels about FRIENDS coming to an end. It's started to make me think very deeply about what it's all meant to me and that's made me ever more emotional!” ThinkingFeelsKindMadeStillsEndsShowsTogetherMovingJoyEmotionCareersOur LivesEmotionalOne DayAnd LoveAskingAll KindsJournalistTensionWorking TogetherThis DayPreparingPouringVery DeepComing To An End Author:Jennifer Aniston
“In my country, families are raised as though they are one. Although I am from the Dinka tribe, my parents didn't raise us as the Dinka tribe. They raised us as the Wek family, in the way they believed their children should grow up. So when you leave, the first thing you think is the ones you left behind. It's natural to help them in any way you can. I found a way to support myself rather than asking my Mum to give me money. I would work before school and send money back to pay for their rent and food.” ThinkingWayGivingShouldFirstsChildrenCountryHelpingSchoolFoundLeftGrowsParentNaturalPayBehindsSupportGrowing UpGive MeAskingRaisesRaisedMumTribesLeft Behind Author:Alek Wek
“I am a Christian and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate.” ThinkingChristianAskingAppropriate Author:Gary Goodyear
“If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayShouldPersonsDifferentBigsAskingChaosDifferent WaysDifferent Peoples Author:Ice T
“You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.” IfsThinkingWantDifferentSocialInformationOkayAskingFollowingSocial NetworkJust SayingUpdates Author:Biz Stone
“I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingDifferentMomentsCausesConsciousnessNovelPerspectiveReaderAskingNot SureChanging The WorldSingle Mom Author:Edan Lepucki
“I understand what's going on in people's minds, and I think the political leaders better be asking themselves 'why is it, that Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and maybe even others are having the impact that they are having?'” PeopleThinkingMindPoliticalLeaderTrumpAskingImpactPolitical LeadersCruz Author:Trent Lott
“Yeah, I love A Nightmare on Elm Street. I was just a fan. I was such an avid fan. I remember being on the set talking about a sequence and he started asking me about maybe staging it a little different. I realized - I think he was shocked that I knew his work so well - I remember I started going like, "Why don't we do it like The Last House on the Left, where you had the girl on the ground..."” ThinkingWellsLittlesDifferentLastsRememberGirlHouseLeftTalkingFansStreetsAskingYeahI RealizedNightmareShockedSequenceAvidStagingNightmare On Elm Street Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.” ThinkingHeartLongUniverseAchieveMy HeartAskingVery GoodGood Place Author:Riccardo Tisci
“Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLooksLittlesWarSelfBigsMightLife IsUsedVoicePowerfulWonderfulTaughtBearsFirst TimeTransformationAskingPrisonMetaphorImpressedWriting LifeHollowObjectionsSelf Transformation Author:Sam Hamill
“At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.” ThinkingFactsTermDifferencesLevelsSubjectsApproachAspectAskingMeaningfulAddressesInvestigationNot InterestedTheoreticalAsking QuestionsNaturalistActual Life Author:George Pattison
“It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"” PeopleThinkingStillsEnjoySeeingTelevisionAskingSeriesCome UpReal LifeSurrealLiving OnLife Living Author:Atticus Shaffer
“Every single day, something comes out of the [Ted] Cruz campaign that's deceptive and untrue, and in this case, goes after my faith. This is a pattern now, and I think we're now at a point where we start asking about accountability.” ThinkingCasesAskingPatternsCampaignsAccountabilityUntrueDeceptiveCruz Author:Marco Rubio
“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.” ThinkingWayMeanWantedDesireResponsibilityPrinciplesLimitsAskingAgencyEthicalTaking ResponsibilitySubjectivityForegroundEthical Principles Author:Richard Marshall
“There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.” PeopleThinkingWellsDirectorsAskingMotherhoodCompassionateTransfersBeing A MomMulti Tasking Author:Angelina Jolie
“I see that I have been engaged to Emily [Blunt] without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through 'Hello' magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous.” ThinkingHas BeensBigsHappensAsksAskingRidiculousMagazinesEngagedHelloBluntEmilyMarry MeBig Questions Author:Michael Buble
“51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.” PeopleThinkingLawBitsReligiousCallingAskingEditorsSensiblePublishingCharlieCaricaturesUnwiseCharlie Hebdo Author:Tariq Ramadan
“9/11 just seemed to come out of the blue. And there were people asking questions, but then there were no answers. At some point, it just turned into, "We've got to do what we've got to do." And I think those are the moments when you grow, when you get the opportunity to try to figure out, exactly as you said, what price are you paying, and if it's worth that price.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingSaidMomentsOpportunityGrowsAnswersFiguresAskingBlueAsking Questions Author:Susan Sarandon
“I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.” ThinkingWaySometimesCertainActorsDirectorsAskingGuiltyBehaveAcceptablePortraying Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"” ThinkingTryingHumansWholePurposeHuman BeingsMysteryHonestFiguresPlanetsAskingBeing Honest Author:Annie Lennox
“Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsEnoughAskingBudgetsMore Money Author:Judd Apatow
“When I started out, maybe because I did Thelma & Louise early on - but people were always asking, "Are things better for women now?" I would say, "Yeah, I think so. It seems like it." Then a few years in, I started saying, "I think so. I'm getting a lot of good parts, but I don't know." Then eventually, I was like, "Google it. I don't know, but it doesn't seem great."” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsSeemsAskingYeahGoogle Author:Geena Davis
“People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingMatterMightEyeSongRecordsNiceSeeingInfluenceDogAskingSizeTrackAlbumsVarietyPerformingReally NiceMonochrome Author:Page Hamilton
“Getting to a place where I am comfortable saying things was hard-earned for me. I've chewed on the ground glass of my own experience. I saw Gloria Steinem speak, and I was just like, Shut the front door. She was saying that she didn't come into her own until her 40s, and she was asking herself the question, Why should she have to get married? And I just thank God someone asked that question, right? I think we're the first generation of women asking ourselves certain questions and deciding for ourselves.” ThinkingShouldFirstsHardCertainSpeakMy OwnSawsGenerationsDoorsFrontsComfortableMarriedAskingGlassesThank GodFront DoorsGloria Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.” PeopleThinkingNeedsJobsTermInterestMediaConflictAskingJournalistInterviewsBetter JobsConflict Of Interest Author:Michael F. Jacobson
“In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.” ThinkingKnowsWayMeanSelfAskingPaintPortraitsIdealisticSelf Portrait Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHumanityAskingPointlessAsking Questions Author:Bill Mollison
“I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions.” PeopleThinkingSometimesKnowingMomAskingMy MomAsking Questions Author:Ashley Greene
“One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.” ThinkingWayWellsSaidStillsGirlStudySpecialMetsOne DayMarriedIndiaTwentiesAskingLondonIndianTwenty OneSari Author:Indira Gandhi
“Puerto Rico is a government that is spending money that it doesn't have. What's coming in and what's going out don't match. That is, what they are receiving in taxes is not sufficient to cover the spending that they are taking on. And any entity that does that, whether a family, a business, a government, is going to go broke and bankrupt. They are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource.” IfsThinkingShouldDoeGovernmentLastsGivenTaxesResourcesAskingSpendingBrokeSufficientReceivingEntityGoing OutResortsBankruptcyPuerto RicoSpending MoneyRico Author:Marco Rubio
“They [ the government of Puerto Rico] are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource. But there also need to be measures, changes within the government of Puerto Rico, in the ways that the island's funds are administered, not just to deal with this budget issue, but also to have, to attract the economic growth that is necessary for Puerto Rico to begin to grow economically. They are losing population, and they are losing economically.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsShouldGovernmentLastsGivenGrowsGrowthDealsIssuesEconomicLosingResourcesAskingPopulationBudgetsIslandsFundResortsEconomic GrowthBankruptcyPuerto RicoRico Author:Marco Rubio
“Actually, I am asking for this: for something to be done. I think that if it had been one of the 50 states, something would have already been done. Unfortunately, you know, Puerto Rico is a territory. Very often they forget about Puerto Rico.” IfsThinkingKnowsStatesDoneForgetAskingTerritoryPuerto RicoRico Author:Marco Rubio
“We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.” ThinkingJobsOpportunityOur LivesAskingBeggarBegging Author:Malcolm X
“[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my inauguration." And I think that's probably true.” PeopleThinkingWantStoriesTrumpAskingEmsInauguration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?” ThinkingMaySaidStillsI CanActionJobsAmericaResultsSituationViolenceMilitaryKingsAskingArguingSavedBeing TrueLutherMilitary Action Author:Barack Obama
“Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.” PeopleThinkingShouldImportantBookStoriesHappensYoungReadingResultsAskingTheatreCinemaComing Out Author:Michael Morpurgo
“Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.” ThinkingKindMadeImportantPoliticalSpeakSocialRaceClassRelationAskingVariousGenderAnalysisAssumptionContributionCategoriesFormationIntersectionalityImportant Contributions Author:Judith Butler
“In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think they're being very subtle taking a photo while in fact they're being very obvious. When you're in a middle of a mouthful with friends or family and people come up asking for a photograph, that's when you want to say, 'Actually, I'm going to say no; I'd like to finish my meal. This is my time.'” PeopleThinkingWantFactsAgeBitsMiddleSittingAskingCamerasPhotographPhonesCome UpObviousDinnerMealsMy TimeRestaurantsSubtle Author:Hugh Bonneville
“We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."” ThinkingDoneSchoolStudentsBasesAskingUniversity Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I started asking friends, my white friends around, I said, "What's something that you think all Asians have in common?" They almost always immediately said, "Slanted eyes." I thought that's really interesting. No. 1, it simply isn't true. Not all Asian Americans have slanted eyes, and of course, Asians aren't the only ethnic identities to have them. No. 2, we could talk about our slant on life and what it's like to be people of color, while at the same time, using this outdated and obscure racial slur, and turning it on its head.” PeopleThinkingSaidEyeCoursesWhiteInterestingCommonIdentityColorAskingObscureAsianReally InterestingOutdatedAsian AmericanSlursEthnic Identity Author:Simon Tam
“People were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie [of The Twilight Saga], and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsEndsLeftFeltStuffKnowingMonthsAskingTwilightBewilderedSaga Author:Robert Pattinson
“I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.” ThinkingSpaceAnswersPayAttentionIssuesGroupsStudentsSafeAskingFundamentalsUniversityLandscapeProgressiveWarningGraduatesFrankAggressionUnitsTriggersAsking QuestionsSafe Space Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.” ThinkingWayMeanPersonsHappensCoursesProcessNaturalDoctorsAskingPatientIllDetermineGods WillInterfereInterferencePlaying God Author:Jack Kevorkian