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Thought Quotes

"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"

"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

Thought, Idea, Awards, Energy

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"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

Norman Cousins, American Editor

Thought, Action, Energy, Loss

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"I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship."

"I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship."

Kenny Loggins, American Musician

Thought, Saying

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"Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do."

"Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do."

Steve Burns, American Actor

Thought, Aspirations, Nothing

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"So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away."

"So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away."

Lynn Redgrave, British Actress

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"When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught."

"When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught."

Monica Lewinsky, American Celebrity

Thought, Now, Remorse

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"It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one."

"It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one."

Ellen Burstyn, American Actress

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"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."

"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."

Dorothy Day, American Activist

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"I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members."

"I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members."

Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician

Thought, Policy

34

"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."

"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."

Henry Flynt, American Artist

Thought, Nothing

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"I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable."

"I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable."

John Glover, American Actor

Thought, People, Being

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"I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills."

"I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills."

Lesley Stahl, American Journalist

Thought, Machine, Office, Running

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"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."

"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."

David Seabury, American Psychologist

Thought, Thoughts

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"I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there."

"I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there."

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

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"I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together."

"I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together."

Kim Novak, American Actress

Thought, Right, Want

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"When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet."

"When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

Thought, Europe, Years

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"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment.""

"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment.""

Andy Warhol, American Artist

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"Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed."

"Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Thought, Day, Deed, Spirit

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"I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else."

"I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else."

Lexa Doig, Canadian Actress

Thought, School

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"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."

"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."

Chester Brown, Canadian Cartoonist

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"For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all."

"For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

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"I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines."

"I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines."

Neil Patrick Harris, American Actor

Thought, Shakespeare

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"I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony."

"I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony."

Elizabeth Wurtzel, American Writer

Thought, Character, Depression, Existence

34

"I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal."

"I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

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"I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word."

"I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word."

Camryn Manheim, American Actress

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"I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields."

"I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields."

Tony Randall, American Actor

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"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."

"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

Thought, Being, First, Future

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"To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great."

"To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great."

Jeff Goldblum, American Actor

Thought, Thoughts, Identity, Sense, Thinking

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"Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them."

"Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them."

Natasha Henstridge, Canadian Actress

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"My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging."

"My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

Thought, First, Irish, Sky

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"I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance."

"I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance."

David Kay, American Scientist

Thought, Apology, Reality, World

34

"I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there."

"I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there."

Mac Davis, American Musician

Thought, Kids, Song

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"From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring."

"From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring."

Thomas Campion, English Composer

Thought, Thoughts, Delight, Spring

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"Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it."

"Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it."

Waylon Jennings, American Musician

Thought, Boys, Reason

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"On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships."

"On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships."

Eberhard Weber, German Musician

Thought, People, Famous, Pretty

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"When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do."

"When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do."

Paul A. Volcker, American Economist

Thought, People, Fact, Inflation

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"It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!"

"It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!"

Naomi Watts, English Actress

Thought, Hollywood, Years

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"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it."

"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it."

David Icke, English Athlete

Thought, Behavior, Force, Police

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"The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there."

"The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there."

Nicholas D. Kristof, American Writer

Thought, People, African, Congress

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"All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate."

"All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate."

Nellie Bly, American Journalist

Thought, Thoughts, Fate, Mind, Months

34

"I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game."

"I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

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"I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites."

"I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Thought, Thoughts, Being, Sound

34

"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."

"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."

Terry Southern, American Writer

Thought, Comedy

34

"They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good."

"They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good."

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

Thought, Fun, Play, Pretty

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"Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me."

"Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me."

Lee Atwater, American Politician

Thought, People

34

"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"

"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"

Shirley Knight, American Actress

Thought, Vanity

34

"We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same."

"We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Thought, People, Constitution, Machine

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"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble."

"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

Thought, Survival, Effort, Future

34

"Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will."

"Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will."

John Sterling, American Entertainer

Thought, Answers, Colors, Feeling

34

"You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of."

"You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of."

John Walters, British Musician

Thought, Idea, Kids, Want

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