“Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.” PeopleKnowsPhilosophyIssuesLife PhilosophyEvolutionConversationComedianBallparks Author:Marc Maron
“I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.” KnowsMayIndividualSecretIssuesAllowingTrust Issues Author:Kevin Gates
“We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.” KnowsNeedsPovertyIssuesSlaveryRelateAbortion Author:David Platt
“Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.” KnowsWorldPersonsMomentsShowsSituationTeachIssuesStudentsDepthObservation Author:Marianne Williamson
“I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."” ThinkingKnowsSaidWholeShowsBigsKidsTalkingIssuesConversationImpactAcceptedThey SaidTransgenderBatteredBig ImpactBattered Women Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.” KnowsWorldNeedsLittlesRealitySchoolInterestIssuesStudentsWillingDrawsResearchBridgesExecutivesFacultyMatureGapsProfessorsApplicationAcademicTowersIvorySavvyBusiness SchoolIvory TowerAcademic Research Author:Dave Ulrich
“Consciousness is anything you define it as. I tell people instead of waiting, just take any definition that you like, and use that, and run with it! So I don't think the issue is that we don't know what consciousness is. The issue is we don't have a consensus on what consciousness is. Far from it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseRunningWaitingConsciousnessIssuesDefinitionsConsensus Author:Stanley Krippner
“I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.” ThinkingKnowsIssuesUnderstoodBother Author:Carrie Fisher
“I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsStillsEndsStatesHelpingBigsGovernmentAnswersIssuesTeacherProtectPoliceReformOfficersPrivate SectorPolice OfficerBig GovernmentFirefighter Author:Scott Walker
“That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.” PeopleKnowsMenProblemAgeAmericaYoungArtistGamesIssuesYoung ManManipulateFudge Author:Billy Corgan
“We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.” PeopleThinkingKnowsChildrenTwoFactsIssuesTakenMetsExtraordinaryAdopted Author:Judi Dench
“I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMeanDifferentHardIssuesToo MuchSeriousHard TimesConnectingUnfoldingConundrums Author:Uma Thurman
“As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveBookEndsPlayStoriesHappensDiesCultureIssuesCuriousResolutionJuliet Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming. We won't wait for the federal government. We will move forward because we know it's the right thing to do. We will lead on this issue and we will get other western states involved. I think there's not great leadership from the federal government when it comes to protecting the environment.” ThinkingKnowsStatesGovernmentActionMovingStrongWaitingIssuesEnvironmentInvolvedWesternMoving ForwardCaliforniaThings To DoRight ThingGlobal WarmingFederal GovernmentGreat LeaderGreat Leadership Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.” KnowsIssuesDirectorsConnectedMilesNot AloneTouch Me Author:Werner Herzog
“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHeartHas BeensWarReasonWantedUsedFightingNationsMemoriesIssuesHappenedEventsHeroHorrorShould HaveShameOccasionsFakeJustifyCashShould Have BeenShamefulAtrocitiesUnifyingWrong ReasonsWedgesRudy Author:Paul Krugman
“As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice."” PeopleKnowsNeedsTwoSometimesWholeCharacterWantedYoungCertainThreeStuffRealizingRoomsIssuesShotsScriptsShootingFilmmakerLayersEditingPreciseThree TimesExplaining Author:Storm Saulter
“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.” PeopleKnowsAnimalIssuesPiecesAmountSixEatingWelfareMeatThrowingEfficientCaloriesAnimal WelfareRecyclingThrowing AwayWastefulness Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship. We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.” KnowsWayStrongHoursIssuesSawsPhonesImpulse Author:Abigail Disney
“I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.” KnowsWritingHardSongGirlIssuesRaised Author:Steve Earle
“TV commercials make parenting look like there are going to be good days and bad days - like, it'll be this gentle wave, like you'll have a blissed-out, really wonderful day or two, and then, you know, then you'll have an issue. And what parenting is, is kind of earthquake.” KnowsLooksKindTwoIssuesWonderfulTvsLike YouWaveBe GoodGentleGood DayBad DayEarthquakesWonderful DayTv CommercialGood Days And Bad Days Author:Dan Savage
“People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking about how am I forgiving my enemies? How am I turning the other cheek? How am I loving my neighbor as myself? To me that's 10,000 times more difficult than to say should priests be married or not be married? I'm, like, I think we're wasting all out energies on the wrong thing. Let's work on the most difficult stuff.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldSometimesCareEnergyStuffDifficultEnemyIssuesFocusLike YouMarriedRedHotForgivingNeighborPriestsCheeksButtonsTopicsWho CaresBeing MarriedWrong ThingsCelibacyTurn The Other CheekHot Topic Author:Lino Rulli
“We know there are states, like Alaska, where there are not a lot of providers. How do we work on issues like that? How do we work on making sure that the small-business part of this works better?... And if people have [alternate] plans, let's compare them and see. Access, affordability, and quality - that's what this is about. [But] "repeal" is a symbol of something that I don't think is connected to the substance of what's happening. Do you want to take away care from people who have preexisting conditions? [Repeal] takes you backward.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantStatesCareQualityIssuesPlansConditionsHappeningsConnectedAccessSymbolsSubstanceCompareSmall BusinessAlaskaProvidersAffordability Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they talk about wanting Sharia to play a role in their lives really mean it in so far as it talks about family law, you know, issues like, as I said marriage, divorce.” KnowsWayMeanSaidDifferentPlayLawRolesIssuesIdentityUnderstoodDivorceDifferent WaysReally MeanAbout FamilyShariaMarriage DivorceFamily Law Author:Mark Durie
“If you were watching CNN, they were saying the NSA is listening to your phone calls. It's reading your emails. When you call your grandma in Arkansas, the NSA knows. All total bulls - t. They made the public more concerned about the privacy issue than the legitimate facts should have done.” IfsKnowsShouldMadeDoneFactsReadingIssuesListeningConcernedShould HavePhonesPrivacyEmailBullsGrandmaPhone CallsNsaCnnArkansas Author:Michael Morell
“Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's getting to a point where it's starting to get bad, I don't have to have the fear of, "Am I strong enough to see this through? Would I really make a stand here? Would I really quit over this issue?" And I know in my heart that there is a place where I would walk away. I don't have to make it about my ego. I don't have to make it about whether I'm being strong enough or tough enough.” IfsKnowsHeartEnoughBigsFightingStrongWalksIssuesMy HeartEgoToughArgumentStartingStudiosQuittingExecutivesStrong Enough Author:Ronald D. Moore
“I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"” KnowsWayDifferentMatterReasonCertainActorsRealizingTalkingAcceptingIssuesMetsLogicHotNo Matter WhatReasoningOppositionDo You KnowViewpointsCredible Author:Robert Redford
“The fans appreciate the success the young guys are having now because they know the game is clean, that they've finally got rid of all the performance-enhancing drug issues.” KnowsYoungGuyGamesIssuesFansDrugAppreciatePerformancesCleanYoung GuysPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Ryan Braun
“I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I was Palestinian. I knew that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 - then, they came in a very strong way.” KnowsWaySchoolGirlHouseStrongBehindsIssuesIdentityWallVery StrongProtectedPalestinianMosques Author:Rula Jebreal
“We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsI CanHomeKnow HowIssuesTakenOfficeAccounts Author:Charlie Norwood
“But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.” KnowsMenFormKnow HowIssuesMaterialsMastersCommand Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If there's anything you want to do and you can't figure out why you're not doing it, there's a simple answer: you link more pain to doing it than not doing it. Hey, if you don't have enough money, for example I know that's an issue for a lot of people. It was for a good deal of my life. If you don't have money there's only one reason: you link more pain to having more money than to not having it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantReasonEnoughPainSimpleAnswersDealsIssuesFiguresExampleHeyLinksMore Money Author:Tony Robbins
“The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.” KnowsMenActionOrderCausesSidesIssuesBecomingDegreesPercentDevilAngelConvincedBelieverOppositionSlipsTrue BelieverOrganizerSchizoid Author:Saul Alinsky
“I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.” ThinkingKnowsMayArtSoundViewsIssuesPolicyMajorsUniversityFacultyPublic PolicyLiberal Arts Author:Charlie Munger
“I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.” IfsKnowsWantI CanRealProblemViewsAudienceIssuesMembersPoint Of ViewReal Problems Author:Ariel Pink
“So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindShowsProblemRunningProcessInterestingSituationIssuesFocusCuttingSeeingTenStuckVersionsFixing Author:Bryan Burk
“I don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues that I think we as a documentary community, you know, need to address.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsDoeFactsCommunityIssuesTelevisionRaisesTriumphAddressesDocumentariesAndrew Author:Joe Berlinger
“Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.” KnowsImportantEnoughKidsDecisionIssuesArguingContraryMatureImportant IssuesGood Decision Author:Zig Ziglar
“In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.” PeopleKnowsRealGovernmentCommunityIssuesImpactProfessionEstatesReal PropertyRealtors Author:Johnny Isakson
“To go into more specifics regarding actors, whether they're from Korea or the U.S., all actors know if they are loved by the director. When they feel that love from the director, they respond by giving a great performance on camera. Also, everyone on set - the crew, the actors - they were aware of the film's message and its broad theme, so these big issues were never discussed on set.” IfsKnowsGivingFeelsBigsFilmActorsIssuesDirectorsMessagesPerformancesCamerasThemeBroadsCrewKoreaSpecificsGreat Performance Author:Kim Jee-woon
“The old rule in Massachusetts politics is shape of the field determines the winner. If you have got a whole bunch of hawks, all the way from [Mike] Huckabee all the way across to [Chris]Christie, that covers the spectrum on every other issue, all hawks, all hawks, and one guy out there saying, not me, Jimmy Carter won that way back in `76. I know it`s 1,000 years ago.” IfsKnowsWayYearsWholeGuyIssuesFieldsShapesYears AgoDetermineBunchWinnerMikeSpectrumJimmyCarterHawksMassachusettsChristie Author:Chris Matthews
“You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.” PeopleKnowsWantUsedThreeSpeakIssuesStrategyHonestlyDenialSandExtremismMemesBuryingOstrichesDeflection Author:Dalia Mogahed
“Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.” KnowsWorldArtBigsAgeFormCertainCultureIssuesYouthDefinitionsRelevantRelevanceBig QuestionsYouth Culture Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.
“The truth that people are missing about certain things, you know when they get fearful and they get hateful, and they repress other peoples, is the greatest truth of all, you know, the truth of love and understanding and clarity about all those issues. And it's like, one day, one day, everybody's gonna know, myself included, over certain things. But, so it's like, it's alright, you know, you hate me now, but that's cool, because I see a better day and I know that there's a higher truth, and you're wrong about hating me because I'm gay.” PeopleKnowsCertainHateUnderstandingIssuesMissingHigherGayOne DayClarityFearfulHatefulAlrightHate MeBetter DaysYou Hate Me Author:Emily Saliers
“My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.” IfsKnowsKindWarFacesSufferingParentIssuesGenerationsSacrificeStandardsToughBillsClintonBobOld FashionedUrgentTough TimesMy GenerationElectorateCurmudgeon Author:Bill Maher
“Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms.” IfsKnowsWholeIssuesRightsWalkingDrivingCaliforniaAddressesFenceWormsPedestriansCans Of Worms Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.” KnowsActionCan DoDifferencesIssuesFiveMinutesPleaseSolutionsMaking A DifferenceEducateFive Minutes Author:Matt Damon
“I get a singular comment that's very revealing: "I didn't know what to expect." Every time I hear that I think it's really just code for, "I wasn't sure I'd be comfortable with you in this role," which I understand coming from Oscar Bluth and Hank Kingsley and whatever. But I think there's a degree of, "Oh, okay, this is how it is." Then almost always people tell me that they love it and then people start talking to me about their families, whether it's transgender issues or not.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTalkingRolesIssuesDegreesComfortableOkayCodeCommentOscarsRevealingTransgender Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.” ThinkingKnowsMeanWholeCharacterSeemsChristianAmericaSpiritualSpiritualityTermInterestingIssuesTeachingMiddleTheoryContemporaryEducatedCellsStemFundamentalismEasternStem Cell Author:Rachel Weisz
“I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.” KnowsWantWritingEnoughAbleIssuesPlanetsPaperClaimsMeetingsClimateExpertsTopicsPapersQualifiedMonsoons Author:Willie Soon