“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.” IfsThinkingChildrenLittlesCountryRunningBlackImaginationDark Author:Malcolm McDowell
“I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.” ThinkingCountryUnitedPartyDutyCitizensCorruptionRussiaDestroyedOur CountryThievesPatriotCrooks Author:Alexei Navalny
“I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.” ThinkingCountryNaturalFitMajorsBaseballLeagueMajor LeagueMajor League Baseball Author:Joe Nichols
“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.” ThinkingWantTryingCountryNextSpaceLevelsBoundariesJohnsonNasaNext Level Author:Ellen Ochoa
“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.” ThinkingCountrySchoolCrisis Author:Daniel Pennac
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.” ThinkingMindCountryTruthReadingMaterialsCitizensFellows Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsLongCountryEnoughCrisisSavingGreekAgendasGreece Author:George Papandreou
“But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it's not an issue of countries acting on their own. We need a more coordinated strategy not only in Europe but around the world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsCountryActingCasesIssuesUniqueEuropeStrategyDebtAround The WorldGlobesSovereign Author:George Papandreou
“I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.” ThinkingCountryFightingFatherSocialJusticePrinciplesDemocracyProudSixSocial JusticeJailHeritageGrandfatherExileMy GrandfatherFighting For Freedom Author:George Papandreou
“I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.” ThinkingCountryMomentsGovernmentDifficultSupportOfficeCommitmentObviousSavedOur CountryEuroMembershipDifficult Moments Author:Lucas Papademos
“I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldCountryEyeAbleGrowsGrowing Up Author:Michael Phelps
“I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensTwoCountryCrazyHotHelenGoing CrazyTwo CountriesHelen Of Troy Author:Colin Quinn
“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantCountryPlayAbleCareersRocksFrontsMusicianPerformancesJazzLastingSongwritingPunkSongwritersGroundwork Author:Amy Ray
“I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.” ThinkingSaidImportantCountryFightingPresidentRealizingStepsDrugTradeCorruptionAddressesEndeavorGovernanceStep UpInauguralInaugural Address Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.” ThinkingWantI CanCountryFactsHouseCountry Houses Author:Guy Ritchie
“For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.” ThinkingWellsCountryGovernmentAmericaSportsPicksFunctionFoundationStableWorkforce Author:Ken Salazar
“One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. None of these programs have worked. I don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. All it does is delay the clearing of the market. As soon as the market clears and we understand where the prices really are - that will be the most important thing we can do in order to improve home values around the country.” ThinkingKnowsDoeImportantIdeasCountryDoneHelpingHomeGovernmentValuesOrderNextCan DoFourTroubleProgramImportant ThingsConservativeMore TimeDelayGoing To WorkMortgageClearingGovernment ProgramsNew GovernmentConservative ValuesHomeowners Author:John Boehner
“I heard governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that's the experience that we need? Someone who's going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America.” ThinkingWantNeedsBelieveLooksCountryStatesAmericaPresidentUnitedUnited StatesHeardEconomicStreetsWallRepublicanExpensesGovernorsRomneyBailMain StreetFinanciersGovernor Romney Author:Rick Santorum
“Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.” PeopleThinkingCountryPresidentRepublicanCriticalOur CountryAppropriateConferences Author:John Boehner
“I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantCountryKidsIssuesReturnRepublicanDrugApproachSolutionsKillingCome UpBordersSouthernHumane Author:John McCain
“I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.” ThinkingKindPersonsCountryRememberChicagoDirtDirt Roads Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?” ThinkingKnowsWayKindHas BeensDifferentCountryPastHappenedResponseDecadesDifferent WaysHovering Author:Amy Waldman
“Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.” ThinkingCountryStepsComedyWonderfulActresses Author:Fred Willard
“People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCountryRecordsPlayerJazzStudiosBobBlondeNashvilleJazz Records Author:Elvis Costello
“The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsSaidCountryEnoughGovernmentLeaderArmsBearsNeededSouthExcuseChinaBordersUpsetDamageConvinceIranGood EnoughOther CountriesPakistanKoreaRight To Bear ArmsSouth KoreaNorth And SouthLandmines Author:Angelina Jolie
“Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.” ThinkingShouldMeanCountryPovertyCharityReductionHaitiPoverty Reduction Author:Laurent Lamothe
“I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMayStillsCountryEnergyStrongMovementSourceAreasWingsAverageOilAlternativesTexasHippieRight WingDrillsTexanAlternative Energy Author:Jesse Metcalfe
“I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.” PeopleThinkingYearsStillsCountryAbilityWatchesTelevisionTvsInternetWideInchesForeign CountriesCsi Author:Leslie Moonves
“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.” ThinkingWorldShouldArtImportantCountryKidsSchoolFormUsedLostMusic IsJazzUsed To BeExposedLost ArtMusic In Schools Author:Chrisette Michele
“I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.” PeopleThinkingLooksCountryEyeCertainViewsComedyBirdBritishCanadaLook At MeObjectivity Author:Eric McCormack