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"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."
Andrew Wiles
"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."
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"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role."
Anthony Quinn
"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role."
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"Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind."
Treat Williams
"Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind."
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"So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go."
Ted Nelson
"So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go."
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"But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great."
Dennis Muren
"But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great."
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"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
Harry Mathews
"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
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"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
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"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded."
Simone Weil
"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded."
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"Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there."
Barbara Walters
"Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there."
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"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."
Paul Valery
"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."
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"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."
Robert Rauschenberg
"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."
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"I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others."
Adrian Belew
"I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others."
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"My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock."
Selma Blair
"My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock."
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"We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right."
Jeff Ament
"We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right."
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"I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened."
Mariel Hemingway
"I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened."
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"I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment."
Jimmy Smits
"I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment."
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"As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best."
Danny Bautista
"As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best."
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"Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of."
Stockwell Day
"Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of."
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"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."
Wallace Stevens
"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."
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"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there."
Jacques Lacan
"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there."
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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
Isaac Newton
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
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"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
Ruth Brown
"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
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"Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started."
Rebecca De Mornay
"Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started."
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"We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure."
Charles Bronson
"We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure."
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"Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was."
Stevie Nicks
"Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was."
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"Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement."
David Bohm
"Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement."
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"I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy."
Carly Patterson
"I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy."
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"I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries."
Frank Capra
"I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries."
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"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
Harry Houdini
"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
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"I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career."
Teddy Sheringham
"I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career."
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"When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap."
Peter Berg
"When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap."
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"They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general."
Mark Goddard
"They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general."
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"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
Seth Lloyd
"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
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"Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years."
Thomas Lennon
"Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years."
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"My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures."
Mason Cooley
"My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures."
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"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
Ethel Waters
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
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"Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all."
Jessica Biel
"Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all."
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"I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself."
Sachin Tendulkar
"I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself."
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"A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics.""
Helen Rowland
"A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics.""
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"There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else."
Bob Woodward
"There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else."
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"And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks."
James Lipton
"And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks."
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"I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle."
Robert Crippen
"I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle."
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"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
John Galsworthy
"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
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"So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'"
Ellen Burstyn
"So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'"
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"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
Arthur Machen
"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
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"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."
Tim Berners Lee
"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."
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"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable."
Samuel Johnson
"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable."
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"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."
Ted Danson
"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."
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"When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal."
Scotty McCreery
"When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal."
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"I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model."
Kate Moss
"I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model."
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