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Thought Quotes
"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
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"To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do."
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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
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"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
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"I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic."
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"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."
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"There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas."
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"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."
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"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"
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"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset."
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"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
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"When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb."
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"I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never."
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"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country."
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"The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation."
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"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
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"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."
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"Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk."
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"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
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"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."
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"Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing."
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"Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought."
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"My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game."
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"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."
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"I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it."
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"When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was."
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"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."
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"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
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"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."
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"The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want."
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