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Thought Quotes
"All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less."
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"When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb."
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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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"So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'"
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"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."
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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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"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."
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"Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image."
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"I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft."
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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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"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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"The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation."
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"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."
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"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
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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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"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 never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
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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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"Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!"
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"There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view."
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"Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest."
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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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"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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"I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about."
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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 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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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."
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"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it."
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"I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on."
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"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."
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"Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything."
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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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