“President Obama said that over 40 countries have offered to help the U.S. fight ISIS. Of course they said it the same way your friends do when they promise to help you move. 'Yeah just call me, you know, if I'm around. It'll be fun.'” IfsKnowsWaySaidCountryHelpingMovingFightingCoursesFunPresidentPromiseYeahCall MePresident ObamaThey SaidIsis Author:Jimmy Fallon
“My personal success would be that people understand what I was trying to do. It was the most palatable when I watchmen_7_mdid Dawn. With Watchmen, too, I feel the same way. The movie's ironic and satirical and it's funny and serious and that's kind of the same way I felt about Dawn. Like I really was making a movie that knows it's a zombie movie and enjoys that and wants the audience to say, yeah, that's okay.” PeopleKnowsWayWantFeelsTryingKindWould BeFeltEnjoyAudienceSeriousOkayYeahDawnIronicZombieSatiricalPersonal SuccessZombie Movie Author:Zack Snyder
“I see what those people are doing with computers and it's just the new way of doing things and I don't look down on them for it, it's kind of funny that there are a lot of people - and I don't even care, this isn't me being like "well I do this" - but there are definitely people who are like: "Yeah I played all that."” PeopleWayWellsLooksKindCareComputerYeahNew WaysNew Ways Of Doing Things Author:The Rocket Summer
“There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and a child, and all these things get in the way of his enlightenment. So, yeah, I have no chance of being enlightened.” WayWantChildrenStoriesGuyChanceWifeEnlightenmentYeahBuddhistEnlightenedCows Author:Larkin Grimm
“If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.” IfsWayWantEndsReasonUseChanceWalksDealsDirectorsPaidYeahVery GoodFinancialScriptsWaterfalls Author:Steven Soderbergh
“In some ways, except that in that movie [Skyfall] I was mostly screaming and running away from the bad guys, whereas in this one I'm generally jumping into the action and fighting with them. So, yeah, it was somewhat similar, but also very different.” WayDifferentRunningActionGuyFightingYeahRunning AwayJumpingBad GuysSkyfall Author:Naomie Harris
“On the flip side, I've also had to struggle with saying "yes." Before I did this research and before I had my own breakdown and spiritual awakening around this work, my motto was, "Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing." Which I think is the way the majority of adults in our culture live. Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingLittlesSpiritualCultureSidesMy OwnStruggleResearchAdultsYeahMajorityAwakeningAuthenticityVulnerableUncomfortableVulnerabilityMottoFlipSpiritual AwakeningBreakdownSaying YesMy Motto Author:Brené Brown
“I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really.” KnowsWayMeanI CanHardCausesSoundSimpleTalkingYeahOutlookHard ThingsSeminary Author:Nick Lowe
“I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.” ThinkingWayNeedsSpiritSongTurnsCausesFineYeahTunes Author:Mark Ronson
“I just feel like I'm an artist that still has set a standard for artists that come up to follow and be like...So, yeah, I guess I'm a legend somewhat, I guess in my own right, but I still got a long ways to go.” WayFeelsLongStillsArtistMy OwnStandardsYeahCome UpLegendsLong WayLong Way To Go Author:Ginuwine
“I really became aware of the fact that, oh yeah, whereas a lot of other shows are sort of cynical or jaded or just sort of coming from that sort of energy, our show is very, very about these love-based relationships. It really comes out, a lot of times, in a sweet way. And I think people find that refreshing about our show. That's one of the things I definitely picked up on.” PeopleThinkingWayFactsShowsEnergySweetYeahCynicalRefreshingJaded Author:Steve Zissis
“Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.” ThinkingWayKindLongRealJoyChildhoodSpecialBasesYeahSacredFolksPassingPassingsPurityAdulthoodReal Joy Author:Pete Docter
“We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured with them all the way up to and including Soundgarden, who we've toured with three times now. We also toured with Metallica for a year. But yeah, Megadeth was the only one we were a little sketchy about because um, it was a little sketchy.” WayYearsLittlesThreeNamesBlackBrainBandYeahThreatIncludingFlagsPunkMinorsThree TimesMetallicaRamonesSketchyMegadeth Author:Reed Mullin
“Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.” WayDoneGuyActorsReadyDirectorsYeahClayLumps Author:Jason Graae
“Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.” IfsWayTryingKindLittlesMadePlayCertainRecordsHonestCriticismYeahNotesGuitarBeing HonestMemorableUnnecessaryInstrumental Music Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I don't have like whatever, so I'm just like, "Oh man, I'm just going to try to stay out of most people's way and get a taco and enjoy myself as much as I can," because it's such a beautiful town. Beautiful weather. I called my dad that day to tell him what was going on with my passport and he was like, "Yeah it snowed four inches today. It's ten degrees outside." I'm just like, "Cool. I'm glad I'm in Austin, no matter what."” PeopleMenWayTryingI CanMatterTodayBeautifulEnjoyFourDadTenDegreesTownsNo Matter WhatYeahMy DadGladWeatherInchesPassportsAustinTacos Author:Justin Vernon
“Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.” ThinkingWayWantSimpleYeahWhat You WantPunkSweeping Author:Steve Diggle
“Because there's no accountability on line in the same way there is in real life, all of a sudden you can say like, yeah, I hate women; I want to kill women. And you can say that online, and not only will you find a place to say it, but you'll find a place to say it where people are like, yeah, me too.” PeopleWayWantRealHateLinesI HateYeahReal LifeOnlineAccountability Author:Jessica Valenti
“Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in." Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops." If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.” IfsWayLooksDifferentHappensStageBandYeahPerformingDifferent WaysLockedSolitary Author:Aoife O'Donovan
“So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea of elusive and intangible things. That could be psychological. It could be perceptual. It could be just the way your ears help you just navigate around.” ThinkingWayArtIdeasPlayHelpingHappensSoundEnvironmentEarsYeahPsychologicalElusiveNavigateIntangible Author:DJ Spooky
“Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.” IfsWayNeedsTwoEnoughWould BeRunningInterestingMinutesTypePersonalityYeahTradeChecksSomething BetterNeurosisJennifer Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“Yeah, this is what I think was a quality of movies, is you're in a group of people. You're sharing something with people. Whether those other people make you laugh more, you're all laughing. You're all happy together. There's something... manmade about that in a way that's - I'm not sure how that manifests itself in nature, but culturally we've set that up when we invented theater and the movies and all that stuff.” PeopleThinkingWayTogetherStuffQualityLaughingGroupsTheaterYeahNot SureMake You LaughHappy Together Author:Paul Reubens
“American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country. We are higher class people." That's not what it is. America was the exception to the way human beings prior to America, most of which lived.” PeopleWayHumansCountryAmericaHuman BeingsClassHigherYeahBunchExceptionBroadsExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that the justices gave that back to me. I really did. You know, of course, you can have some sharp exchanges. That's the nature of the thing, and that's fine. But really in the main I felt like the tone from them was, "Yeah. We may not agree with you, but we're going to have a discussion about this." And it did.” KnowsWayFeelsMayCoursesFeltJusticeOne ThingFineAgreeYeahGratefulMy WayDiscussionToneDid You Know Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“Where art and business intersect is a challenging hurdle for a lot of people, reconciling the fact that not everyone is going to make it in the same way. Yeah, you have to be a little selfish, probably.” PeopleWayLittlesArtFactsChallengesYeahSelfishHurdle Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I ever would have seen or thought imaginable a while ago. But it's also cyclical. You saw it in the '80s when it became kind of huge again. And then it disappears for a while, then it comes back again, then it disappears for a while. So yeah, there's something about that.” ThinkingWayKindBookSawsHugePercentHollywoodYeahDisappearComicMainstreamComic Book80sBack Again Author:Ryan Reynolds
“You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking at you like, Who are you? And oh yeah, you think, I have to reacclimate to the way people genuinely treat each other.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanTvsTreatsSeasonsYeahSwearing Author:Maria Semple
“I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of this happened. But I've been familiar with his work, so I felt I wanted to get it right. I wanted to honor him. I respect him and I think the way he does his job is admirable. Yeah, there was an added incentive. I wouldn't call it pressure, but incentive perhaps.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeWantedJobsFeltChanceHappenedHonorYears AgoPressureYeahFamiliarIncentivesAdmirable Author:Zachary Quinto
“I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound like whiners - about how hard writing is, and how we didn't have a story to work on. Alison said, 'Why don't we work on writing something together,' and I said, 'Eh, I don't know if I could work that way.' She said, 'Well, just show up here and we'll see,' and I said, 'Well, what would it be about?' She said, 'Duh, it'd be about a tall girl and a short girl.' So I agreed to come and try it for a day.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWritingTryingWellsSaidHardStoriesShowsTogetherRememberGirlSoundYeahComplainingIf I CouldTallDuhScrabbleWhinersTall GirlShort Girl Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have some cult going. Its not the fault of the internet, it's the fault of a social and culture system that doesn't educate people properly and in fact on purpose. They don't want to educate people properly.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFactsPurposeCultureSocialInternetYeahFaultsEducateCultWeird Things Author:Noam Chomsky
“I had been doing private readings for ten years when my guides said, "We want you to reach more people." Then I said "How?" They said, "You're going to write a book." And I said, "Oh, yeah sure, I'm going to write a book. No way." But I did an outline. And I got pushed by my development circle.” PeopleWayWantWritingYearsSaidBookReadingDevelopmentTenYeahGuidesCirclesThey SaidOutlines Author:James Van Praagh
“Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."” PeopleKnowsWayKindStatesWantedSongTermYeahUnionsDoctrineMy WayConcertsSovietCynicalSoviet Union80sSatiricalPactGorbachevEstoniaWarsawWarsaw Pact Author:Robert Davi
“You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have those pages to use later - to gift wrap some fish for your mother - but either way you're gonna have pages.” WayWritingUseMotherPagesYeahFishesWraps Author:Shane Black
“Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindLittlesDoeSaidCharacterRememberSpiritFeltBitsToo MuchComfortLittle BitYeahMovedFatsAffectedMy SisterRetrospectMustacheTapping Author:Colin Farrell
“I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.” WayLostHavensReadyShameYeahInnocence Author:Robert Plant
“Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.” ThinkingWayMatterLaughingMiddleYeahDirtyTwistsSantaBad Santa Author:Christina Hendricks
“Politically, the world economy really depends on consultants. Because it's also, in a way, an outsourcing of responsibility. They can say, "Yeah, they told us to do that," and the consultant says, "Yeah, but I'm just a consultant," and nobody's responsible anymore.” WorldWayResponsibilityEconomyDependsResponsibleYeahConsultantsWorld EconomyOutsourcing Author:Maren Ade
“I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.” IfsWorldWayTryingSpeakSoundLove YouYeahConvincingSydneyFootyCockneysYeah Yeah Yeahs Author:Gene Simmons
“I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every day working with him was really a pleasure. And he's in almost every scene in the film, so the poor guy had to work the - almost the entire 30 days of our film shoot. But, yeah, he was really a pleasure, and I really love what he - how he embodied this character.” WayPersonsCharacterFilmGuyActorsPleasurePoorSceneYeahDriversAdam Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWritingWellsMightSongLike YouFitYeahTunesSupermarkets Author:James Dean Bradfield
“We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.” WayKindLittlesSaidMomentsMagicCarFieldsChangedThirdsYeahThumbsBanditsLittle MomentsThumbs Up Author:Burt Reynolds
“There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanLittlesArtDifferentYeahCompetitionLovelyDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsAffectedRight WayConfusingDifferent PeoplesMeasurement Author:Emma Stone
“The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you to believe that America was only great for a few people as founded, because, as founded, America was gigantically discriminating against the poor and against people of color and against transgenders. Yeah, I've read the Federalist Papers, you know. James Madison, he wasn't popular with the transgender group back then. Did you know that? You won't find the word. It was not a factor, the way they have attempted to modernize things here today. It's just lies.” PeopleKnowsWayWantBelieveStatesReasonTodayAmericaLyingPoorUnitedUnited StatesGroupsGreatnessColorPaperDiversityYeahFactorsPapersTransgenderDid You KnowMadisonFederalistFederalist Papers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“"First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I mean, women, yeah, I mean, make the case that they've been victimized. But they can't put themselves in the same shoes as slavery's legacy for example. Now, women might try to make the case. Hillary [Clinton] might try to make the case about not being ought to be able to vote, but it ain't gonna fly.” WayTryingFirstsMeanMightAblePresidentPowerfulCasesExampleOughtFemaleVoteYeahSlaveryClintonShoesAfrican AmericanLegacyAmerican PresidentFemale President Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Stop and think of what happened in America. The melting pot, yeah, it happened. Stop and think of what happened, from the first days of the founding. You have to go back to the Pilgrims. You have to include the Pilgrims in the founding. Why they came. What they learned on the way. What they learned after they got here. The Pilgrims, like everybody else, tried to establish a socialist collective. Bombed out. Didn't work. We know this, the governor wrote about it himself, William Bradford.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsAmericaHappenedYeahCollectivesPotGovernorsSocialistFoundingMeltingPilgrimMelting PotBradford Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.” ThinkingWayKindStoriesFunctionYeahMythologyLandscapeDystopianSuperheroZombie Author:Adam Frank
“When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveCountryAmericaConsciousnessYeahBurdenSettingSettingsSavingSupposed To BeAgencyExtrasAgendasAnnoying Author:Naomi Wolf
“I didn't tell anybody [had got a role at As Good As It Gets], because I was just going, "Well, that was the strangest audition..." And I just thought, "There's no way he gave me the job on the spot when there was a room full of other girls waiting to audition for it." But then I didn't hear anything for a couple of days, so I finally called my agents, and they're, like, "Oh, yeah, congratulations! We know Jim [L.Brooks] told you in the room that you got it."” KnowsWayWellsJobsGirlWaitingRoomsRolesCoupleYeahSpotsAgentsAuditionsCongratulationsBrooksOther GirlGood As It Gets Author:Julie Benz
“I truly love [Andy Serkis]. He's an amazing guy. Yeah, I think that when we really synced up was when he came over to my place, the place I rented in Vancouver, and we had like two bottles of wine, and what a night. What a night. And by the way, I don't remember a damn thing we talked about, but I can tell you it would've been like the greatest conversation if we could've written it down or something, because it was incredible. He's such a bright, amazing guy.” IfsThinkingWayI CanTwoRememberNightGuyWrittenConversationYeahWineIncrediblesDamnBottlesVancouverDamn ThingsBottles Of Wine Author:Woody Harrelson
“I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.” ThinkingWayProblemKidsNaturalPlansFiguresGrewAuthorityGrew UpYeahAngleDnaIdentifyingAuthority Figures Author:Denis Leary