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Thought Quotes


"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."



"Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind."


"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."


"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."



"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."


"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."



"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."


"I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others."



"My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock."


"We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right."


"I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened."


"I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment."


"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."



"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."



"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."


"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there."


"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."



"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."



"Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was."


"I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy."


"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."


"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."


"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."



"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."



"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."


"My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures."


"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."



"I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself."


"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."



"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."


"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."



"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable."



"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."
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