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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."

"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."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Thought, Career, First, Hollywood

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"Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course."

"Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

Thought, Mistake, Fame, Training

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"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts."

"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Thought, Thoughts

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"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."

"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."

David Bohm, American Scientist

Thought, Saying

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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Blind, Content

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"I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring."

"I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring."

Kim Deal, American Musician

Thought, Spring

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"A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy."

"A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy."

Gloria Trevi, Mexican Musician

Thought, People, Dream, Madness

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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."

"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."

Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian Athlete

14

"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."

"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."

Ziyi Zhang, Chinese Actress

Thought, People, Boyfriend

14

"Thought the sun is gone, I have a light."

"Thought the sun is gone, I have a light."

Kurt Cobain, American Musician

Thought, Light, Sun

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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Thought, People, Freedom, Speech

14

"I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can."

"I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can."

Meg Ryan, American Actress

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"When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be."

"When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be."

George Washington Carver, American Scientist

Thought, Thoughts, Actions, Hate, Hell

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"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."

"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

Thought, Thoughts, Disguise, Man, Speech

14

"But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression."

"But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression."

Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman

Thought, May, Years

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"With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee."

"With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee."

Tom Glazer, American Musician

Thought, People, Modesty

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"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."

"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, 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!"

"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!"

Natasha Henstridge, Canadian Actress

Thought, Acting, Challenge, Fact

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"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."

"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."

Ramana Maharshi, Indian Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Present, State

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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."

"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."

Robert MacNeil, Canadian Journalist

Thought, Negative, Positive, Country

13

"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."

"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."

Bruce Sterling, American Writer

13

"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."

"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."

Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Politician

Thought, Expression, Freedom

13

"For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world."

"For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world."

Harold H. Greene, American Judge

Thought, Friends, Service, World

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"At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be."

"At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be."

Delta Burke, American Actress

Thought, Being, End, First

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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."

"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."

Eric Bogosian, American Actor

13

"In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened."

"In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened."

Robert Stack, American Actor

13

"I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite."

"I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite."

Leo Baekeland, Belgian Inventor

Thought, First, Trying

13

"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat."

"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat."

E. B. White, American Writer

Thought, First, Office

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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."

"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."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

Thought, Virtue

12

"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."

"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."

Ruth Handler, American Businessman

Thought, Successful

12

"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."

"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

12

"I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it."

"I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it."

Ann Richards, American Politician

Thought, Pretty

12

"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."

"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."

George Boole, Irish Mathematician

Thought, Knowledge, Laws, Mind

12

"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."

"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

Thought, Survival, Beginning

12

"I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never."

"I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never."

Evel Knievel, American Entertainer

12

"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts."

"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Thought, Thoughts, Practice

12

"I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it."

"I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it."

Todd Barry, American Comedian

Thought, People, Knowledge, Comedians

12

"So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else."

"So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else."

Henry Kravis, American Businessman

Thought, Challenge, Chance

12

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

William James, American Philosopher

Thought, Ability, Stress

12

"It was a lot of fun on the set. I had the most fun making that movie out of all of them. I'm sure if I sat and thought about it, but none that I could think of offhand."

"It was a lot of fun on the set. I had the most fun making that movie out of all of them. I'm sure if I sat and thought about it, but none that I could think of offhand."

Jason Mewes, American Actor

12

"I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that."

"I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that."

Matthew Barney, American Artist

Thought, Desire, Hunger, Project

12

"Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer."

"Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer."

Bobby Vinton, American Musician

11

"On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view."

"On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view."

Hideki Tojo, Japanese Soldier

Thought, Army, October

11

"If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today."

"If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today."

Olin Miller, American Columnist

Thought, Today, Yesterday

11

"Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics."

"Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics."

Jerry Only, American Musician

Thought, Songs, Statistics

11

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Thought, End, Philosophy, Wonder

11

"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."

"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

11

"I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions."

"I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions."

Anita Hill, American Celebrity

Thought, Regret, Saying

11

"I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity."

"I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity."

John Hall, American Politician

Thought, Hope, Feeling, Freedom

11

"Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold."

"Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold."

George Villiers, English Politician

Thought, Heart, May, World

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