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Thought Quotes
"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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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
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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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"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
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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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"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."
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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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"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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"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."
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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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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
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"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."
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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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"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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"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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"I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story."
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"I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous."
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"Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get."
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"To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind."
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"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."
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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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"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
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"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
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