“I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on and how much secrecy and transparency there should be. That's an on-going thing - in a democracy you want checks and balances and oversight, but you need a covert agency to protect the country. It's a very tricky balance and I think it changes as the world changes and I think we all need to be mindful of that.” ThinkingWorldWantNeedsShouldCountryDemocracyIssuesBalanceProtectChecksAgencySecrecyTransparencyTrickyParticipatingVigilantCitizenryOversightCovert Author:Matt Damon
“My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.” ThinkingHelpingLife IsProtectInnocencePreservesHelp MeDaily LifeBubbles Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.” ThinkingKnowsWayDoneTurnsKnow HowFocusProtectPrivate LifePositive ThingsGlare Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.” ThinkingWould BeActorsSpeakProtectStandardsFemaleMalesActressesPersonaDouble Standard Author:Mila Kunis
“I think most people, when they take a look at the candidates and the positions of the candidates, realize that protecting this country and keeping this economy going are the two most important issues. And you can't protect the country if you retreat from overseas, and you can't keep the economy growing if you raise taxes. And that's exactly what the Democrats in the House would like to do.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksTwoImportantCountryHouseRealizingEconomyIssuesGrowingPositionProtectTaxesRaisesDemocratCandidatesRetreatImportant Issues Author:George W. Bush
“I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.” ThinkingMadeCountryMatterCertainDecisionEconomyProtect Author:George W. Bush
“I think most people are motivated to want to do what is best for themselves. People want to avoid STDs. I believe in a system that leaves it up to the individual to protect their own health.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveIndividualI BelieveProtectI Believe InMotivatedStds Author:Chester Brown
“The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.” ThinkingWantHousePayProtectLetting GoBiggerStressedTrue Freedom Author:Mark Boyle
“Woman should have the choice whether to have an abortion or not, but I like what Bill Clinton said: It ought to be safe and rare. You don't want to offend people with it. You try and do as much as you can to let people be different, but also to try and protect them from things that they think are bad. And it's worth all of us giving a little.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingShouldTryingLittlesSaidDifferentChoicesOughtProtectSafeShould HaveBillsClintonAbortion Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.” ThinkingKnowsTryingBelieveChildrenRealityKidsAgeGamesFantasyProtectSmartAdultsHolesTeethFairyEtcVoidSantaAlways TryingMake BelieveReally SmartTooth FairyProtecting Children Author:Shane Warren Jones
“Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."” ThinkingYearsMayNightChoicesGirlSexPartyDangerousObjectsProtectMusicianFairsHanging OutBodyguardMileyObjectifying Author:Keli Goff
“Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order. [...] Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. [...]” ThinkingWayImportantStatesGovernmentValuesOrderUnitedTalkingUnited StatesChangedCitizensProtectConstitutionFellowsCourtTerroristGuaranteesPatriotChasingHomelandState GovernmentThings Have ChangedUnited States GovernmentPatriot ActRoving Author:George W. Bush
“Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.” ThinkingMaySelfCreativeAliveFailingSucceedProtectImpulseBarriersAuthentic SelfBuryingProtecting Ourselves Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“So I think if we want to turn the table around, more than thinking about how can we starve the Islamic State in terms of money, we should think about how can we maximise the amount of resources that we have in order to secure ourselves. For us, instead of bombing so much, which is extremely expensive, perhaps, you know, we should use some of that money in order to protect ourselves.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantShouldStatesUseOrderTurnsTermAmountProtectResourcesTablesSecureIslamicExpensiveBombingIslamic State Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required. I have to protect my goddess, as best as I can.” ThinkingFeelsI CanGuyProtectGoddessBad GuysGood GuyInhibitions Author:Dennis Haysbert
“Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They self-righteously lecture us about public service, the children, a 'living wage' all in the service of squeezing more money from the taxpayer to fund their breathtakingly selfish job arrangements.” ThinkingChildrenSelfGovernmentJobsEconomyCrazyProtectWorkersSelfishFundMore MoneyArrangementsLecturesSalaryTaxpayersPublic ServicePensionObsceneSqueezingLiving WageGovernment Workers Author:Ann Coulter
“If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingGovernmentValuesCommonProtectEssentialsGiving UpCommon SenseChinese Author:Ai Weiwei
“We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.” ThinkingMenWayLove IsHe ManProtectDeeperRap Author:Lauryn Hill
“I think everyone's going to really try to keep costs down. The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively. I can protect my filmmakers from any form of creative interference, be it from anywhere, if we're all acting in a responsible way and making the pain of a failure be as little as possible.” IfsThinkingWayTryingLittlesI CanPainFormActingCreativeCostProtectResponsibleFilmmakerInterference Author:Eric Fellner
“Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.” ThinkingKnowsWorldImportantRunningSocialProtectPeterOutsidersTimelessGeekIconicSocial NetworkOutside Looking InPeter Parker Author:Marc Webb
“I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldTryingGovernmentProtectShould HaveCriminalsCorporationsBoycott Author:Ziggy Marley
“I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.” ThinkingWellsUsedStuffCasesFourProtectCreditCardsPocketsBagsCredit CardPassportsSmall Stuff Author:Avicii
“I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.” ThinkingKnowsMeanChildrenSaidIdeasDoneKidsSongSidesDarkSacrificeDrugMoonProtectGood IdeasPenniesLanesDark SideProtecting Children Author:Bill Maher
“I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.” PeopleThinkingTroubleProtect Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm too measured and controlling - about everything. That's why I take Lexapro. It's for OCD. I don't feel like I'm struggling with it. I think OCD is a part of me that protects me. It's also the part of me that I use in my job, in a positive way.” ThinkingWayFeelsUseJobsStruggleProtectOcd Author:Amanda Seyfried
“They sold me a duvet cover, and I don't have a duvet, I don't think. Then, they started treating me like I'm the idiot. They're like, 'Do you have a comforter?' 'Yeah.' 'Well, you have to protect it!' I had no idea it was under attack.” ThinkingWellsIdeasProtectYeahNo IdeaIdiotComforterDuvets Author:Alonzo Bodden
“I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards.” ThinkingNeedsLooksWholePassionProtectLive LifeValidation Author:Lady Gaga
“I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.” ThinkingSocialSecurityOughtProtectFundSocial Security Author:John McCain
“I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.” ThinkingMenI CanFactsProblemGirlBlackSpecialCryProtectPrejudiceInstanceAwfulTreatmentBlack WomenObsessing Author:Kola Boof
“My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley.” ThinkingTryingParentUnderstandingReligiousPoorBrotherProtectNormalMy BrotherBrothers And SistersAlleysPoor Family Author:Alissa Nutting
“Maybe it's easier to think about dishonesty and what kind of trouble you can get into as a writer when love and honesty collide and you sidestep that collision, either because you want to protect somebody or you want to blame somebody - which are the usual impulses in love: protection and blame, frequently at the same time - so you don't exactly tell the truth.” ThinkingWantKindTroubleHonestyEasierProtectBlameProtectionImpulseTelling The TruthUsualDishonestyCollisionCollideLove And Honesty Author:Leigh Newman
“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
“I'm very conscious of data and analytics, and understanding how our body works and different loads that we put on it throughout the course of games and practices. It helps you make adjustments if you need to, helps you be smarter about your workouts, and I think it protects you from injuries to not over-exert yourself.” IfsThinkingNeedsDifferentHelpingBodyCoursesGamesUnderstandingPracticeProtectConsciousDataInjuryLoadSmarterWorkoutAdjustmentProtect YouAnalyticsBody Work Author:Stephen Curry
“I think we all have a piece of wild in us that we want to protect. It was a very organic choice for me to support this organization [African Wildlife Foundation].” ThinkingWantChoicesSupportPiecesProtectFoundationWildlife Author:Veronika Varekova
“But more important, I think, is the criticism bin Laden has made publicly over the past 10 years that Muslim governments cannot even protect their own people. And more than that, they'll often collude with the infidels. And if you recall, the initial reaction of the Arab league was to criticize Hezbollah and damn Hezbollah for the war. And they eventually had to turn 180degrees and support Hezbollah.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsMadeImportantWarGovernmentPastTurnsSupportProtectCriticismReactionsDamnLeagueCriticizeRecallsInitialsBin LadenOver The PastInfidelHezbollah Author:Michael Scheuer
“The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual" can't protect you - these are issues I've been thinking about for a while.” ThinkingWayFactsIndividualIssuesInfluenceProtectImportanceProtectionRecognizingProtect You Author:Laura Mullen
“I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.” ThinkingTryingChildrenHardViewsEnvironmentEconomicFiguresProtectProjectsMy ChildrenThings To DoBroadsHard ThingsProtect The Environment Author:Christy Clark
“I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest thing, and I don't even like to bring it up, is my children - you know, you've gotta protect them.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsWritingChildrenDoneProtectMy Children Author:Gwen Stefani
“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindAmericaAchieveExampleMovementPossibilityBalanceProtectOptimismTragedyEnvironmentalPreservesImmigrantsShelterSkepticismFiniteGreat Wisdom Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us human, so that we can give life away and give love away and not be grasping after trying to protect our own lives all the time? That's the way I see the Jesus story, and I think it's a powerful and profound story.” ThinkingWayGivingTryingHumansStoriesProblemJesusPowerfulHavensProtectProfoundFallenGrasping Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm cases are irrelevant, but you have to focus on the values the framers were trying to protect, not on the means with which those values were invaded in the 18th century.” ThinkingWantTryingMeanTodayValuesJusticeAnswersCasesFocusCenturyProtectModelsOriginalsProgressiveIrrelevantParadigm18th CenturyFramersLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an election. What the British people need now is stability. Stability to retain their jobs, stability to protect those working conditions, and we need a plan from this government now on how they're going to approach the negotiations for leaving the European Union before they invoke Article 50.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsMayGovernmentJobsLeaderIssuesPlansConditionsProtectApproachElectionUnionsLeavingCome UpBritishStabilityArticlesNegotiationEuropean UnionInvokeWorking Conditions Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people think that they want to protect themselves against their own currency going down. When you have 75% of the currency and even more of the high-denomination $100 bills held abroad, you wonder whether these are people we really want to pay. If you get rid of the $100 bills, its foreign holders will be the main losers.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantThreePayWonderDrugProtectTaxesBillsChineseLoserQuartersCurrencyDealerDenominationsDrug Dealers Author:Michael Hudson
“I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference. Even to protect their own interests or the interests of the planet or the animals or other individuals, which is critical. I try to keep it.” PeopleThinkingTryingYoungIndividualVoiceInterestDifferencesAnimalPlanetsProtectConnectionsCriticalMaking A DifferencePolls Author:Russell Simmons
“I think the best way to protect the ocean is to encourage people onto it and into it.” PeopleThinkingWayProtectOceanBest Way Author:Jon Bowermaster
“Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make coral? Our heart. We simply cannot survive without our heart; therefore, it's mandatory we heal and protect our coral reefs now.” IfsThinkingHeartDoeWaterBloodPlanetsProtectOceanRiversHealStreamsOur PlanetReefsCoral Reefs Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with compassion, strategic moves, and passing laws to protect animals, not throwing paint and flour on people. That only turns them away from your whole purpose of helping those without a voice.” PeopleThinkingWayWholeHelpingMovingLawPurposeTurnsVoiceAnimalViewsCompassionProtectTreatsPaintPassingPassingsThrowingStrategicFlourProtect AnimalsPassing Laws Author:Katie Cleary
“The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenMeanKidsCrazyEffectsProtectMarriedDefinitionsMasculinityBe A ManHyperCrazy Things Author:Nate Parker
“I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.” ThinkingBelieveMayCountryMatterStatesI BelieveUnitedCasesUnited StatesCitizensProtectCommitmentEuropeDignityNo Matter WhatInternationalPartnersRussiaIsolationHonourMentalityMandatesPeacekeeping Author:Vladimir Putin
“Many Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in coexistence, which is actually more precise to call cohabitation, when people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.” PeopleThinkingWayCountryProblemFacesProtectBasesRegardDetailsTerrorismSyriaPreciseIntegrationAssuredIntegratingUnifiedCoexistencePartitionCohabitation Author:Bashar al-Assad