“It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.” PeopleThinkingBookReasonKidsFilmParentHoursDealsResponsibilityImagineInfluenceFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTypeViolentFallenCensorshipImagine ThatSeductiveUnspeakableMagical Thinking Author:John Irving
“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.” ThinkingHeartCareSufferingDiesPoorRichSubjectsFrontsExampleSeriousBrokenEqualPainfulRich Poor Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsWritingFeltGreaterRiskFrontsEventsPositionNew YorkersVery Deep Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Because of what I experienced when I was a kid, I want kids to have that kind of an epiphany moment, that little jolt, that little spark that they see when Dusty ['Planes'] flies higher than he has before. That scene where he flies straight up, and he's starting to get dizzy, and then finally it comes together. We forget as adults. We get jaded and we think that's kids' stuff, but for a kid who doesn't know about anything technical or how a movie is made, they're just going to see this and hear this beautiful score and see this dynamic, fantastical thing happening in front of them.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesMadeMomentsKidsTogetherBeautifulStuffForgetFrontsHigherSceneHappeningsAdultsStartingThings HappenPlanesScoreSparksEpiphanyDizzyJadedStraight Up Author:Dane Cook
“I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.” ThinkingKindBookFilmEmotionComedyFrontsEmotional Author:Salman Rushdie
“At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted.” PeopleThinkingEndsFactsMorningCarFrontsBedMirrorsMereTeethGet UpGrantedThe End Of The DayEvery MorningBrushes Author:Brock Lesnar
“I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. I laugh after every take just out of the discomfort I feel that I'm even on film. It's an awkward thing for me to be doing. Once we get going, it's always fine, and as we're shooting, I'm never thinking about it. I'd say that all my time in front of the camera is equally uncomfortable for me.” ThinkingFeelsSeemsFilmActorsLaughingFrontsFineComfortableCamerasShootingUncomfortableMy TimeAwkwardDiscomfortDorky Author:Seth Rogen
“Americans are finally coming to a point where they're accepting of religious criticism, is because George Bush is the first president who really put religion so front-and-center. He's the most Christ-y president we've ever had - and he is, not uncoincidentally, the biggest disaster we've ever had. I think even people who are religious don't like it shoved down their throat. I think people kind of get it on a certain level, that this is an antiscience administration, and we're living in a time where we can't afford to be antiscience - for environmental reasons, for educational reasons.” PeopleThinkingFirstsKindReasonCertainPresidentChristReligiousLevelsAcceptingFrontsCriticismEnvironmentalEducationalDisasterAdministrationThroat Author:Bill Maher
“I've always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it's because I was so terrified of monsters and ghosts as a kid that I had to sleep in front of my parents room until I was 12.” ThinkingI CanKidsRememberParentSleepRoomsFansFrontsHorrorMonstersGhostTerrifiedHorror Fans Author:Matthew Gray Gubler
“Xylophone is spelled with an X. That's wrong. It should be a Z up front. Next time you spell xylophone, use a Z. If someone says, "That's wrong!", you say, "No, it ain't." If you think that's wrong, then you need to have your head Z-rayed.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldUseHumorFunnyNextFrontsSpellsNext Time Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.” ThinkingWellsWould BeFunFrontsSpeechFreedom Of SpeechNaziRipGigs Author:Jim Jefferies
“I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.” ThinkingSometimesHelpingAudienceLaughingComedyFrontsSceneCriticalUber Author:John Cena
“I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.” ThinkingBornFrontsHugePaintCanvasPaintbrush Author:Louise Hay
“A lot of people think that Jesus is coming back. That's fine, it's your right. But you know, I live in New York, and I think he's running a little late. I'm asking myself, 'Alright, what happens if Jesus comes back tomorrow? What - does he make rounds to churches?' 'OK, everyone who's been good, buses leave in 10 minutes. I'll meet you in front of the post office. I gotta go. Oh, don't tell the Jews I'm back.'” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLittlesDoeHumorHappensRunningFunnyJesusChurchMinutesFrontsNew YorkFineTomorrowOfficeLateAskingRoundsJewPostsBusComing BackAlrightPost OfficeI'm Back Author:Marc Maron
“So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.” ThinkingLongRealValuesTermFrontsLong TermTime To Think Author:Sam Altman
“When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.” PeopleThinkingGivingBelieveLittlesHas BeensI CanSoulBitsLinesDoubtFrontsLittle BitYour SoulSpotlightChipping Away Author:Richard Ashcroft
“I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.” ThinkingArtistOne ThingFrontsTelevisionCamerasAgreeTradeAddCrowdsReally CoolTrade Offs Author:Brett Dennen
“Leading up to a live event you need to do your homework and go to bed early. Sometimes it's very tempting to go out with everybody else, They're all going to a party or going out for a nice meal and you think 'oh well I'd like to go', but sometimes you think 'no, if I'm going to be sitting in front of a camera under a light in everybody's home tomorrow I don't want big bags under my eyes and not really know what I'm talking about'.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsWellsSometimesHomeBigsLightEyePartyTalkingNiceFrontsEventsTomorrowBedSittingCamerasMealsBagsGoing OutHomeworkTemptingOh Well Author:Jill Douglas
“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfBitsImpossibleFrontsPhotographyHappeningsCamerasPhotographerPhotographHonestlyMade ItPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:John Sexton
“If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.” IfsThinkingWantMindUseProblemCoursesGrowsGoalFocusFrontsBiggerStrongerNotesWhat You WantRecallsThinking About You Author:Les Brown
“Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.” ThinkingWayLooksHappensOpportunityPathFrontsWallCapableScalesThings HappenHeightClimbs Author:Robin Roberts
“I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.” ThinkingWritingResultsFrontsProduceEmotionalSettingSettingsSurprisingUnfamiliar Author:Ralph Keyes
“I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves so that we can see - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsFeelsHumansKindPersonsSometimesStoriesAbleSpiritualFormOrderCultureFrontsExerciseCaptureFiniteTelling Stories Author:Holly Hunter
“I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!” ThinkingI CanRoomsFourFrontsGood ThingsPainfulJournalistAbout Yourself Author:Anne Hathaway
“Having to stand in front of an audience and have it be your job to make them laugh, you can't really look to anyone but yourself. It's what you wrote, what you said and how you said it, so it's kind of terrifying, but I liked it. When it goes well, it's the best feeling in the world. When it doesn't go well, it's the worst feeling, but once you get into the rhythm of it, I think it's really fun.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksKindSaidFeelingsJobsFunAudienceLaughingWorstFrontsRhythm Author:Aubrey Plaza
“'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.” ThinkingDifferentUseHappensSpeakDifficultHoursWatchesFrontsMouthsLettersMirrorsTongueCoachesRealisingDialectDialect Coach Author:Marion Cotillard
“It's not hard to be sexy when you're standing in front of Angelina Jolie or Robin Wright Penn. They're two of the most beautiful women in the world and two of the finest actresses. I think that if you're with people who are good in your profession they become sexy because they're good at what they do. I enjoyed being 6ft 6ins, having an eight pack and a long todger, you know? If I fold mine in half it's the same length!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldLongTwoHardBeautifulHalfFrontsMinesStandingSexyEightActressesProfessionEnjoyedLengthPacksFinestBeautiful WomenFoldsRobinsMost Beautiful Woman In The World Author:Ray Winstone
“Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.” PeopleThinkingNaturalDifferencesActingFrontsPerformingUncomfortablePerformers Author:Kristen Stewart
“I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.” PeopleThinkingVoiceKnownFrontsLetting GoI RealizedHardestThings To DoShyHardest ThingHardest Thing To Do Author:Paris Hilton
“My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.” ThinkingWantNeedsAudienceCreativeFrontsPositionFlowOccasionsGet BetterBe CreativeNew Music Author:Vance Joy
“I think that there are so many women who understand nothing about clothes and they should try and understand themselves before they start putting on disguises: they should stand in front of the mirror for a day, two days or three, and find out what they have which is beautiful, interesting: what they should show: hair, neck, arms, or hands.” ThinkingShouldTryingTwoShowsHandsBeautifulThreeInterestingFrontsHairArmsClothesMirrorsNecksDisguiseTwo Days Author:Sonia Rykiel
“Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very literally forced me to put one foot in front of the other at a time when emotionally I didn't think I could do that.” ThinkingChildrenFeetFrontsHusbandBest ThingsMy ChildrenMy HusbandHikingMarrying Author:Cheryl Strayed
“Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.” PeopleThinkingWorldHelpingHandsEyeTurnsFrontsWallPrizeClimbingClimbing UpEye On The Prize Author:Laura Benanti
“The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.” ThinkingWantKindFactsTogetherThreeChanceDestinyFrontsCircumstancesMy FamilyCourtTennisRestaurantsTennis Courts Author:Novak Djokovic
“I've been a professional for I think 13, 14 years. It's not easy hitting balls every day and staying really motivated throughout the whole period. It's normal [that] you're going to have ups and downs. But I found my way again. And I love the sport. I love competing. I love battling. I love being out there and playing in front of crowds. This is what I've been doing since I was a child. There's nothing else that I want to do.” ThinkingWayWantYearsChildrenWholeFoundEasySportsLove IsFrontsPeriodsNormalBallsCrowdsMy WayStayingMotivatedHittingCompetingUps & Downs Author:Jelena Jankovic
“The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.” ThinkingI CanWalksBehindsDoorsFrontsHairHelloOnly TimeClosed DoorsFront DoorsMustacheBehind Closed Doors Author:Hulk Hogan
“I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.” ThinkingStrongLinesBrainEffectsFrontsNew YorkColorScreensAirplaneSaturated Author:Linda Ronstadt
“I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsSpiritCertainStageFrontsCrowdsLoudPerformingPerformersImprovisationClicksExaggeratedTranscendentalWeird ThingsObnoxiousTrance Author:Wayne White
“I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenNeedsFeelsLooksStillsBlackImaginationRaceTakenFrontsPositionKillingIncrediblesDrivenUpsetDemonOutrageousIncredible Hulk Author:Claudia Rankine
“Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.” ThinkingGuyFrontsPeriodsStandingBackgroundsGlancesSceneryThink Of MeSneak Book:How to Build a House Source: How to Build a House
“I'm thinking of doing everything now, including this stupid act of waiting for someone in front of their house so you should do the same. You have no thoughts of becoming the little mermaid, so that's why I'll be come the little mermaid instead. I'll be right next to you as if I am not there and disappear like foam. So right now, I am the one shamelessly hanging on to you.” IfsThinkingShouldLittlesNextHouseWaitingFrontsStupidBecomingRight NowIncludingDisappearMermaidHanging OnFoam Author:Joo
“I find it very endearing when a girl is dorky because it takes a very brave person to act that way in front of people. And in every girl that I've been attracted to, I recognize the dorkiness about her because I think I have some in me. That makes me feel a lot more comfortable with her.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsPersonsGirlFrontsComfortableBraveEvery GirlEndearingDorkyBrave Person Author:Justin Deeley
“In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and observed a moment: One of the cleaners stopped, puzzled, in front of the Picassos. I think that this is an image that can be universally understood, but with a grain of salt. I never chose this image in edits before because it seemed to me that it felt posed-the composition was a little too perfect. But, believe me, it was a lucky moment.” ThinkingBelieveLittlesArtMomentsFeltPerfectFrontsLuckyUnderstoodOpeningPreparationFeaturesMuseumsSaltGrainBelieve In MeCompositionEditsCleanersExhibitionsPuzzledGrain Of Salt Author:Micha Bar-Am
“I think as a scout you have to pick. It is harder. You have to talk and explain that this is not just about standing one-dimensionally in front of a camera.” ThinkingFrontsPicksStandingHarderCameras Author:Michael Flutie
“I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.” ThinkingImportantSelfMomentsHappensCultureForgetFrontsTvsPhonesThat MomentPerformersEmergenciesSelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Laura Benanti
“I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingMeanPersonsStillsKidsCertainBitsTermKnow HowImagineFailingFrontsSingersLabelsBrokeUrgesShadeShellsBike Author:Le1f
“I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.” ThinkingWayTryingStillsFactsProblemRaceIssuesFrontsRelationShameGuiltPostsAddressesSophisticatedAttackingRace RelationsLashesPerpetuating Author:Danny Strong
“The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsPersonsWarYoungFrontsAuthorityReactionsWar Of The WorldsIncompetenceTrenchesFirst World War Author:Doris Lessing
“I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts. I can read the body language of linebackers. I study film to see who's a bull rusher and who's a finesse rusher. I think I've learned.” ThinkingKnowsI CanBodyFilmLanguageStudyFrontsConceptsI've LearnedBullsTeammateBody LanguageI Can ReadFinesseLinebackersLinemanLinemen Author:Brandon Jacobs
“I think after coming off of 'American Idol'... people kind of expect you to just be awesome all the time, and we're still learning. I had a lot of stage experience, but it was in a 200-seat theater, you know - it wasn't thousands of people in front of me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsStageFrontsTheaterSeatsIdolsAmerican Idol Author:Carrie Underwood