“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.” ThinkingKindPersonsPlayLightAbleGuyActorsWhiteColorAfrican AmericanStereotypeLatinoAmerican GuysEthnic Stereotypes Author:Daniel Sunjata
“The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.” IfsThinkingKindStylePersonalitySexiest Author:Jessica Szohr
“I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindLittlesHas BeensBigsComedyDramaActressesComedianPerceiveComedicMisperception Author:Octavia Spencer
“I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.” ThinkingWantKindRunningObjectsNormalTablesHatedTerrifiedRelaxedVaultsAutopilot Author:Alicia Sacramone
“I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.” ThinkingKindHas BeensEnoughStoriesWould BeFilmFunWitchInquisition Author:Amy Smart
“I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindMayHappensCausesTermEnvironmentalFactorsNervousAgentsDamageChemicalsPentagonEnvironmental Factors Author:Bernie Sanders
“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.” ThinkingNeedsShouldKindCertainDramaJazzTensionSmoothJazz MusicCornerstonesImprovisingSmooth Jazz Author:David Sanborn
“In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.” ThinkingWayWritingKindStatesMaine Author:Elizabeth Strout
“If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.” IfsThinkingWorldKindTurnsFictionOughtModelsScalesBetter Than You Author:George Saunders
“I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.” ThinkingWayKindSelfFactsKidsGrowing UpGrowingSelf EsteemCallingComfortableSingersEsteemCards Author:Katey Sagal
“I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.” PeopleThinkingKindRolesEconomyInvolvedPromiseActivityVariousCrucialI PromiseRetail Author:Lawrence Summers
“Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsKindWould BeRepublicanApproachImmigrationBordersToneControlledInsulting Author:Jeb Bush
“People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingFeelsKindEnoughRichStreetsDangerousHealthyHatredActivismGiving BackSpawn Author:Bill Gates
“Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.” ThinkingWritingKindLittlesI CanIdeasHappensAbleBoysNovelPathCuttingWillingHolesLeapGet BackBroadsSectionsBlacknessRight Path Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.” ThinkingKindHomeFallTermWanderAlternativesCracksMainstreamFloating Author:K. D. Lang
“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
“The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.” PeopleThinkingKindCultureStuffLevelsTherapyShockCoarseShock Therapy Author:Matt Stone
“If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.” IfsThinkingKindCan DoChanceRolesAuditionsCan Do Something Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?” ThinkingKindLittlesIdeasEndsSpaceDistanceLeavingAccomplishDustHauntingSolar SystemRealisationSlow Motion Author:Regina Spektor
“I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.” ThinkingWantKindDoneStuffCan DoRecordsYou Can Do ItRedos Author:Regina Spektor
“Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, "My God, I was so different at the start of this job." I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.” IfsThinkingFeelsKindLongDifferentEndsJobsGrowsChangedWowI've Changed Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.” ThinkingKindAbleTelevisionHorrorSake Author:Rachael Taylor
“If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.” IfsThinkingWantKindMadeActorsMade ItStandstill Author:Jenna Ushkowitz
“I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindDoeFactsStuffIndustryAll KindsVanityGenreObliviousGenres Of Music Author:Keith Urban
“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
“I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.” ThinkingKindDifferentBeautifulTermAcceptingNovelIdealsPatient Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanChildrenUseRememberLostWishTerribleLessonsPunishmentAbsurdInstanceMy ChildrenBe KindPalmsSiblingTattooed Author:Ayelet Waldman
“The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsKindIdeasCreaturesVampireImpulseFascinatingImmoralityCraze Author:Benjamin Walker
“I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.” ThinkingYearsKindI CanNextWaitingEventsHavensProudRight NowHappeningsSeriesBusyDriversNext Year Author:Dan Wheldon
“I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindLittlesTwoWould BeCertainForgetKnow HowLetting GoMental HealthOverwhelming Author:Dylan Walsh
“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.” ThinkingKindLittlesIdeasWantedGuyBlackSawsWifeGroupsJourneyRocksHairRootsAgingMy WifeBlondeEarringsBlonde Hair Author:Fred Willard
“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.” PeopleThinkingKindGuyTalkingImagineColdTruth IsWoundsBunchKillersHeartedSealsHeartlessToughnessBrainwashedMental ToughnessCold BloodedKind HeartedJovial Author:Howard E. Wasdin
“I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.” ThinkingGivingKindMeanImportantDifferencesDeserveConnectionsCreditOur FamilyFamily Connections Author:JoBeth Williams
“I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.” PeopleThinkingHumansKindArtistDarkPeriodsLegendsComing Out Author:Kristen Wiig
“I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.” ThinkingKindFunBitsGroupsTelevisionLuckyDoctorsCostumesDoctor WhoPropsEclecticEclectic Style Author:Lalla Ward
“I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.” ThinkingKindDifferentDoneRolesComedyDifferent Kinds Author:Luke Wilson
“Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMadeSaidRememberFilmSongCoursesLanguagePeriodsUniversalMake You ThinkUniversal Language Author:Scott Weiland
“I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.” ThinkingMenNeedsMindKindSportsHe ManTraditionGlamourSkatingSparkle Author:Kristi Yamaguchi
“Obviously, there's a big homage to Outland in Moon. I obviously had Ridley Scott's response, which was great. But Peter Hyams really loved Moon and was really enthusiastic about it. He was also enthusiastic about the fact we'd remembered Outland and had remembered it fondly. I think, for him, it was like some kind of edification that there were people out there who loved his film. So, that was a really lovely feeling.” PeopleThinkingKindFactsFeelingsBigsFilmMoonResponseLovelyRememberedPeterEnthusiasticHomageEdification Author:Duncan Jones
“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.” IfsThinkingMenKindI CanPlayFeelingsWould BeGivenIdentityFootballBedDesperateAmerican Football Author:Keith Millard
“Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.” ThinkingKnowsMenKindAbleAmericaFeltPerfectAttentionRecordsMiddleThirdsPaidTownsAimSizeAccessGenreFakeHipsterNashville Author:Jack White
“I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.” ThinkingKindAcceptingMy FavoriteExcitedGenreFavorites ThingsReally HappyNashvilleHub Author:Taylor Swift
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.” IfsThinkingMindKindChildrenIdeasRealSeemsLeftTeachingSpecialTaughtBuiltIndependentImpressionIdiotSuspectsAssociationArtificialComes And GoesReal ThingsEducation SystemSchooledEpistemologyHomeschoolingUnschoolingPedagogySupposition Author:Anne Sullivan Macy
“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWellsKindIdeasEnoughBigsEarthWaterSpaceConcernRiversThreatDrinkingEnvironmentalRoundsConclusionBotherOver ItLive ByStationsSomewhere ElseHalfwayBlastEcologicalComplacentDrinking WaterPurchasingWatershedsBottled WaterTap WaterGroundwater Author:Sandra Steingraber
“Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.” ThinkingKindRealMeditationHumilityBuddhismDemandLifestylePurity Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentStatesEarthDiesLostHellIllnessMental IllnessPsychologicalAll KindsLoved OnesSevereBipolarPlaces You Go Author:Al Franken
“I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.” ThinkingShouldKindDataConsentCollectingDefault Author:Al Franken
“I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.” ThinkingKindHardUseAbleUsedYouthEmotionalApproachSingingWorking ItJust Being Author:K. D. Lang
“I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I think I kind of cling to all those princesses that have brown hair. I just wanted to be them.” ThinkingKindWantedHairBeastBrownPrincessBelleBrunetteBrown Hair Author:Kara Lindsay
“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.” ThinkingWorldKindLittlesImportantKidsPastGrowsBitsGrowing UpLittle BitImportant ThingsTeenagerDiscoveringLittle KidShrinksDiscovering The World Author:Kenneth Lonergan