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Thoughtful Quotes

I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

– Hari Kondabolu

Like most thoughtful people who watch what’s going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.

– Howard Fast

I don’t mind doing interviews. I don’t mind answering thoughtful questions. But I’m not thrilled about answering questions like, ‘If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?’

– Harrison Ford

Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it’s not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it’s worth it.

– Golshifteh Farahani

Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.

– Henry Giroux

Researching ‘Lone Wolf,’ I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn’t provoked by the human.

– Jodi Picoult

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn’t turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

– Jack Kemp

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

– Italo Calvino

Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

– Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I appreciate anything thoughtful.

– Hilary Rhoda

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it’s hard to be serious and thoughtful when you’re dressed like a Skittle.

– Carson Kressley

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

– Ashton Kutcher

I’m very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

– Casey Stoner

I like the values associated with a medical family – common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

– Alain de Botton

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

– Alice Waters

I’m all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it – it could be $5 – but if there’s thought behind it, I think that’s what matters.

– Britney Spears

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

– Asa Gray

I’m progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

– Nina Dobrev

Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding – not wistful.

– Elliott Abrams

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don’t get our civility back, we’re in trouble.

– Emmylou Harris

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

– Mallory Ortberg

The film’s star, Eminem, doesn’t appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful ‘8 Mile’ is a raw version of the rapper’s own story.

– Elvis Mitchell

Scientists are skeptics. It’s unfortunate that the word ‘skeptic’ has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it’s just thoughtful inquiry.

– Michael Shermer

During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

– Gary Hamel

You can go online now and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities around virtually any issue. If it’s your issue, there are now new ways of mobilising knowledge that weren’t there before. There are real bodies of significant knowledge on the web that are valuable that we haven’t done nearly enough with.

– Charles Leadbeater

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

– Georg C. Lichtenberg

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I’m not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

– Caroline Paul

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I’m glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

– Ellie Goulding

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.

– Cormac McCarthy

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