“Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band or played anything. I just picked up music from breakdancing really, that's what got me to listen to music, and in general I was just a creative guy.” PeopleThinkingKindMightGuyCreativeBandMy FamilyMusicalBackgroundsListening To MusicBreakdancing Author:Lunice
“I don't want to die for a few pictures. I want to live for every sunrise I can clap my eyes on; I want to see my family get older; I want to see the world try and get a bit more peaceful and understanding, which unfortunately I don't think I'll ever see.” ThinkingWorldWantTryingI CanEyeDiesBitsUnderstandingMy FamilyPeacefulSunriseWanting To Die Author:Don McCullin
“And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.” ThinkingHeartKidsLastsFatherParentFourWifeGroupsMomHusbandSixShotsMy FamilyIllMy MomAlcoholExesFamily HistoryHeart AttackMentally IllHaving KidsEx Wife Author:Christopher Titus
“Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.” ThinkingYearsHomeBeautifulHealthyLuckyHusbandMy FamilyYeahSo LuckyHealthy And HappyStepchildStepchildren Author:Angelina Jolie
“Sometimes God does something dramatic to get our attention. That's what happened to me in 1975. My family and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of a borrowed cabin in the Colorado Rockies. I was stretched out on a lounge chair in the midday warmth, praying and thinking. I was considering how we Christians - not just the mission I was part of, but all of us - could turn the world around for Jesus.” ThinkingWorldDoeSometimesChristianTurnsJesusEnjoyAttentionHappenedPrayingQuietMy FamilyMissionsDramaticChairsWarmthConsideringBorrowedColoradoCabinsPeace And Quiet Author:Loren Cunningham
“I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose.” ThinkingMenDealsSupportMy FamilyNosesRepercussionsGrown ManBusiness ManRestructure Author:Immortal Technique
“My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenDadMy FamilyMy DadCall MeConventionsInitials Author:Elvis Costello
“Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.” ThinkingGrowsChanceLuckyMy FamilyBiggerEverydayDelightMy TimeFascinatingEveryday LifeMy Smile Author:Barbara Fredrickson
“I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.” ThinkingUsedPeriodsFameAspectMy FamilyExciting Author:Kate Upton
“I'm pretty busy: I'm a working mom and I know a lot about having a hectic schedule, but I think what's really important to me and what's on the top of that list is just making sure that my family stays healthy, especially during flu season.” ThinkingKnowsImportantMomHealthyMy FamilySeasonsBusyListsSchedulesFluHecticWorking MomHectic Schedule Author:Tia Mowry
“I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict.” ThinkingPersonsStuffParentEnvironmentBecomingDrugProtectMy FamilyAddictionDrivenAddictElevenAdventurousSexuallyDrug Addict Author:Melissa Febos
“For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsDifferentStatesNew YorkMovementAppreciateMy FamilyConnectedPartnersPostsShockRemarkableTake TimeIt Takes TimeLike FamilyCounterculture Author:Aaron Brookner
“I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come with being an actor, with being a writer and a director, and the challenges of morphing my career in from just being an actor into a writer/director.” ThinkingYearsActorsChallengesCareersStruggleDirectorsMy FamilyPursuitJust BeingMorphing Author:Ricky Schroder
“My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.” ThinkingDifferentFactsKidsSidesPrideConsciousUnderstoodMy FamilyBrownShadeUnclesBoth SidesCousinAuntCapes Author:Aeriel Miranda
“By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.” ThinkingWayYearsLooksIdeasRunningParentPlansLuckyDaughterAdultsMy FamilyHollywoodActressesMy WaySupportiveGuardianBad IdeasSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Amber Heard
“My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.” ThinkingSongMy FamilyDeeperRelatedAdoptionFamily Life Author:Angel Olsen
“It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."” ThinkingWantLittlesVoiceMy FamilyGenderWhispering Author:Dani Shapiro
“I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.” ThinkingFirstsWellsSometimesDoneGovernmentWantedPartyHavensTypeRepublicanMy FamilyConservativeConventionsRepublican PartyLimited GovernmentGerald Ford Author:Rand Paul
“I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantUseInspirationFatherGamesInfluenceInspireBandMy FamilyJust BeingUncles Author:Nelly
“I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at the end of the day that's been very good for me, because I have a sense of it being very ephemeral.” ThinkingWayLittlesEndsShowsBitsParentStruggleSuccessfulLittle BitMy FamilyBlessedVery GoodThe End Of The DayWealthyShow BusinessEphemeral Author:Rufus Wainwright
“I'm a person who doesn't necessarily enjoy feeling vulnerable, so I think my loved ones and my family make me feel vulnerable. Also, being connected with people when I'm working is a very vulnerable place to be.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsFeelingsEnjoyMy FamilyConnectedVulnerableLoved Ones Author:Grant Bowler
“Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.” ThinkingNeedsMovingFormOrderGivenFocusMy FamilyThese DaysInsanityEfficientLooking Back Author:Grant Bowler
“My mom is one, but there have been performers in my family since as long as we can trace them back, so I think it was kind of inevitable to be artistic and to have a force. We're leaders; we're a family of leaders, so I think it's just part of my genes.” ThinkingKindLongHas BeensForceLeaderMomMy FamilyMy MomArtisticInevitablePerformersGenes Author:Jillian Hervey
“Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who are very committed to this concept. My grandfather's first name was Israel and he thought it was his country. In my own sense of this issue as an American Jew, I have been on both sides of this. At this point I think it is very important for there to be separation of religion and state. It's not good for Jews. It's not good for Muslims. It's not good for Christians. The marriage of state and religion is inherently problematic.” ThinkingWorldFirstsHas BeensImportantWarCountryStatesChristianNamesSidesMy OwnGrowing UpIssuesGrowingMembersConceptsMy FamilyCommittedJewIsraelSeparationWar Of The WorldsWorld War IGrandfatherBoth SidesMy GrandfatherSecond World WarJewish Family Author:Jill Stein
“I came back and decided that I wanted to go to college for acting and got my family on board. My mom, who was a single mom, was a little reticent, but I think after that summer [in the Governor's School], she saw a shift in me and realized that it was something I wanted more than just a hobby.” ThinkingLittlesWantedSchoolActingSawsCollegeMomSummerMy FamilyDecidedMy MomBoardsGovernorsHobbiesSingle Mom Author:Zachary Quinto
“I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know? I'm from the valleys of South Wales and when my family used to go on holiday, it was a big thing. Packing the bags, checking in, not losing your passport, going through customs, the X-ray machine, all that stuff used to be quite an intense thing. Now it's like catching a bus, I don't even think about it.” ThinkingKnowsKindBigsUsedStuffDealsGoes OnLosingMy FamilyMachinesSouthIntenseFlightUsed To BeHolidayBagsCustomsBusValleysRaysTraveledBig ThingsBig DealCatchingPassportsWalesPacking Author:Luke Evans
“My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.” ThinkingKnowsMightEvidenceMy FamilyBe GoodArtistic Author:Matt Letscher
“I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will disappoint when it comes to evangelicals. I'm not talking about personal behavior but policy.” ThinkingCoursesTalkingPolicyTrumpBehaviorMy FamilySincerelyDisappointNot TalkingEvangelicalPersonal Behavior Author:Frank Schaeffer
“My family's the best so to call and say, 'I'm in a movie with Robin Williams,' and they're like, 'That's ridiculous.' And I'm like, 'Good, as long as you think that, too.' Because as soon as you say, 'I deserve this,' it's over."” ThinkingLongDeserveMy FamilyRidiculousRobins Author:John Krasinski
“I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that.” ThinkingEndsFindingsAppreciateMy FamilyWho I AmThe End Of The Day Author:Kevin Durant
“When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.” ThinkingKnowsWalksCitiesMy Family Author:Regina Spektor
“I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.” ThinkingMenWayMindDifferentGovernmentYoungMy OwnMy FamilyBlameAngryMiserableCorporationsDifferent WaysYoung ManPunkAnother WayPunk RockRockersFestering Author:Mark Coleman
“Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"” ThinkingMeanForcePayExistenceCostMy FamilyHarm Author:Alice Walker
“My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesWholeResultsMy FamilyMovedDeeperDivorceLocalsBunchMore TimeAnchorsIdentification Author:John Darnielle
“[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksColorGrewGrew UpAreasMy FamilyFolksLos AngelesCracksChicagoDetroitEpidemicsBaltimoreNucleusOakland Author:Mahershala Ali
“For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites. It's so childish, really, but that might be simply what it is.” ThinkingMightMy FamilyOppositesStructureSplitsAlways Thinking Author:Zadie Smith
“I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the East Coast to California, I thought in my little brain, "Wow, I'm going to Hollywood. I could actually make this happen." It was easier for me to think it's possible living in a place like Los Angeles than trying to do it in suburban Maryland.” ThinkingTryingLittlesDreamHappensSchoolGirlRealizingBrainEasierHigh SchoolMy FamilyHollywoodMovedEastCaliforniaLos AngelesWowCoastNaiveEast CoastMaryland Author:Joan Jett
“I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways and to think about peace as an alternative, especially given the many problems he was having. However, he would reply almost immediately by telling me "you are forgetting that the first bomb that exploded in Colombia was an attempt against you, your sister, and your mother - I did not invent narcoterrorism, narcoterrorism was first used against my family.” ThinkingWayFirstsProblemUsedMotherFatherGivenForgetAttitudeMy FamilyArguingViolentAlternativesBombsColombiaPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“In my personal life, my family makes me laugh more than anybody; I think that is the same for everybody. I certainly hope it is.” ThinkingLaughingMy FamilyPersonal LifeMake Me Laugh Author:Dylan Moran
“I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was I didn't see anybody else in my hometown going to college to give me some kind of influence or something like that you might want to think about. I didn't see any of that. Therefore I thought it was never there. What happened was that my high school coach intervened. Had he not intervened to the measure he intervened, I probably wouldn't have gone.” ThinkingGivingKindSchoolInfluenceCollegeHigh SchoolMy FamilyCoachesHometownGoing To College Author:Lenny Moore
“I wish people knew how down to earth and cool I am. A lot of people think that I'm this high and mighty, bourgeoise girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. I'm a super fun girl that is obsessed with my family and friends and just love to have fun and be a blessing to people! That's it! I'm very simple!” PeopleThinkingEarthGirlFunWishSimpleBlessingMy FamilyHaving FunObsessedSilverFamily And Friends Author:Kierra Kiki Sheard
“My family dynamic is quite eccentric. I have two fathers. I think it depends on the relationship between the child and the parents, but definitely, when it comes to being a stepparent or a coparent, it's a different relationship. There's just as much love, but the bonds can be different. It depends when you come into their life and how well you know them - this dynamic takes a lot of patience and love.” ThinkingChildrenDifferentFatherParentMy Family Author:Liv Tyler
“I don't think I've ever signed onto anything as quickly as I did The Hollars, because I come from a really loving, well-connected family, where we see each other all the time. And when I was done with this script, I was like, "Oh my god, that's my family!" This is obviously a very dysfunctional family, but there was something about it that was sort of universal. And I think that in this day and age in today's world - there's a lot of drama out there. It's nice to tell stories about things as simple and powerful as family.” ThinkingWorldDoneAgeSimplePowerfulNiceDramaMy FamilyThis DayDysfunctional Family Author:John Krasinski
“I try to do as much as I can within myself, with my friends, with my family. Talking to people who are motivated by freedom. I think that sometimes there's something called a negative learning curve where you begin to watch what's happened when the government takes more and more of your life and all of a sudden it's not working so well. I think people may get the idea that they may have bought into some false idols.” PeopleThinkingTryingSometimesNegativeMy FamilyMotivated Author:James Wasserman
“My brother, who's my acting coach, he can be like, "That sucked, Chloe. You need to pick that up. You're not thinking right now. Seriously, think." It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.” ThinkingRealityActingBrotherMy FamilyCoachesMy BrotherHarsh Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“I was born in the United States, I'm proud to be an American, I'm an American first. But obviously, I'm a Chinese-American. And growing up, my family, my parents, and I think rightly so didn't put us in Chinatown, didn't put us with our other ethnic group, but put us in mainstream America. They're thinking was that will help us assimilate into the mainstream and be a part of it. And it did. It certainly gave me tolerance of other people, of other races, of other ethnicities and I think that's helped make me a better person.” PeopleThinkingHelpingParentGrowing UpProudMy FamilyToleranceBetter Person Author:Leroy Chiao
“I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.” ThinkingMy FamilyPriorities Author:Julie Andrews
“I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.” ThinkingMy FamilyMotivated Author:Neymar
“I think my muse is all around me...at least the opportunities for creation are all around. I especially enjoy being in my home and with my family. Families do so many things to center us. At least that is true for me. I think all my stories come from a very real, heartfelt place...a desire to connect and be connected.” ThinkingRealHomeDesireOpportunityEnjoyCreationMy FamilyMuseHeartfelt Author:Jerdine Nolen
“I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.” ThinkingMovingMy Family Author:Adam DeVine