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Thought Quotes


"I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage."


"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."


"I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did."


"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is."


"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison."


"I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes."


"People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days."


"I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss."


"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."



"No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms."


"I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba."



"When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly."


"I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off."



"I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important."


"I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team."



"Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it."


"Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that."



"If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?"


"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."


"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."


"We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant."


"Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible."


"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."


"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."


"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."



"I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."



"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year."


"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."


"They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best."
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