Thought Quotes | Beyond Motive 14/36

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Thought Quotes

"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."

"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

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"I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big."

"I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big."

Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete

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"After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks."

"After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks."

Michael J. Fox, Canadian Actor

Thought, Old, Years

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"We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne."

"We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne."

Uwe Boll, German Director

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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

Thought, Opportunity, Freedom

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"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost."

"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost."

Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect

Thought, Company

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"I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much."

"I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much."

Hugh Laurie, British Comedian

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"Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past."

"Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past."

Lytton Strachey, English Critic

Thought, Future, Past, Spirit

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"I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente."

"I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente."

John Sayles, American Director

Thought, Being, Style, Writer

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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."

Dee Hock, American Businessman

Thought, Thoughts, Mind, Old

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"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."

"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."

Howard Nemerov, American Poet

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"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end."

"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Thought, End, Misery

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"I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson."

"I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

Thought, Nixon, President

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"I've never written a song that I thought was a hit."

"I've never written a song that I thought was a hit."

Richard Marx, American Musician

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"It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift."

"It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift."

David Carradine, American Actor

Thought, Day, Girls, Months

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"When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar."

"When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar."

Denis Johnson, German Writer

Thought, American, Writing

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"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."

"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."

John Henry Newman, British Clergyman

Thought, Thoughts, Conscience, Judgment

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"The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself."

"The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

Thought, Doubt, Man

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"I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen."

"I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen."

Dannii Minogue, Australian Musician

Thought, Thinking

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"I tried. But not everybody thought so."

"I tried. But not everybody thought so."

Andrew Young, American Clergyman

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"I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it."

"I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it."

Bill Kreutzmann, American Musician

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"They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery."

"They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery."

Cybill Shepherd, American Actress

Thought, Compliment

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"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."

"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Thought, Being, Class

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"It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others."

"It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

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"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."

"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

Thought, Thoughts, Man, Sense, Writing

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"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."

"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."

Edward Steichen, American Photographer

Thought, Idea, First, Hell

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"Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding."

"Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding."

Leonardo DiCaprio, American Actor

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"The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it."

"The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it."

Joseph Rutherford, American Clergyman

Thought, Earth, Leaders, Rome

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"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."

"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."

Dick Bruna, Dutch Artist

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"Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race."

"Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race."

David Prowse, British Actor

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"I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night."

"I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night."

Angie Martinez, American Musician

Thought, Night, Right, Sound

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"When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job."

"When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job."

Ben Chandler, American Politician

Thought, Job, Running

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"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."

"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."

Pierre Bayle, French Philosopher

Thought, Being, First, Invention

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"I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard."

"I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard."

Adrian Edmondson, English Actor

Thought, Elderly, Man

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"It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is."

"It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is."

Eugene Ormandy, American Musician

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"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."

"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."

Matthew Arnold, English Poet

Thought, Culture, World

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"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not."

"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

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"It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests."

"It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests."

John Amery, British Politician

Thought, People, Acting, England

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"As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere."

"As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere."

J. M. Coetzee, South African Author

Thought, Development, Creation, Fiction

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"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects."

"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects."

James Lind, Scottish Scientist

Thought, Being, Now, Pretty

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"But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts."

"But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts."

Kirsten Dunst, American Actress

Thought, Thoughts, Decisions, Self

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"I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that."

"I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that."

Juliet Mills, British Actor

Thought, Ballet, School, Years

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"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."

"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."

Robert Sheckley, American Author

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"I've never looked at myself and thought, 'Oh yeah, I'm sexy'. I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way."

"I've never looked at myself and thought, 'Oh yeah, I'm sexy'. I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way."

Ashlee Simpson, American Musician

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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

Joshua Reynolds, English Artist

Thought, Thoughts

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"I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning."

"I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning."

Bill Kreutzmann, American Musician

Thought, Decision

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"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."

"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

Thought, Being, End, First

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"We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise."

"We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise."

Catherine McAuley, Irish Clergyman

Thought, Desire, Now

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"I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."

"I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."

Robert Pattinson, English Actor

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"I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked."

"I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked."

Mark Roberts, American Actor

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