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"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."
Laurence Housman
"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."
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"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."
Maya Lin
"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."
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"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."
Norman Jewison
"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."
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"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"
Daisy Fuentes
"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"
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"I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy."
Fay Vincent
"I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy."
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"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed."
Stanley Kubrick
"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed."
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"I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did."
Jamal Lewis
"I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did."
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"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."
Brian May
"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."
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"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."
Judy Davis
"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."
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"When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read."
Victor Garber
"When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read."
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"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison."
Giuseppe Garibaldi
"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison."
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"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."
Edward Witten
"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."
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"I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront."
Boyd Rice
"I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront."
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"Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability."
Amitabh Bachchan
"Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability."
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"People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days."
Jamie Redknapp
"People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days."
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"One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably."
Jo Brand
"One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably."
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"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."
Edward Grey
"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."
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"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."
Charlie Chaplin
"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."
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"I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced."
Wynton Marsalis
"I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced."
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"No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms."
Peter Frederick Strawson
"No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms."
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"I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba."
Pete Waterman
"I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba."
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"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought."
Michael Tippett
"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought."
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"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."
Steve Case
"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."
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"I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today."
Billie Joe Armstrong
"I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today."
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"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."
Jessica Lange
"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."
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"Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind."
Abdus Salam
"Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind."
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"That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it."
Stephen Stills
"That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it."
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"I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day."
Bradley Whitford
"I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day."
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"I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm."
Edgard Varese
"I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm."
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"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."
Roberto Benigni
"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."
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"We never thought the show would last this long."
Michael Shanks
"We never thought the show would last this long."
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"I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team."
Michael Phelps
"I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team."
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"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."
Will Arnett
"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."
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"Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that."
Ed O'Brien
"Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that."
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"If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?"
Warren Ellis
"If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?"
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"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."
Andy Partridge
"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."
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"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
Louise Brown
"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
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"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."
Eartha Kitt
"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."
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"Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person."
Philip Stanhope
"Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person."
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"Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible."
Michael Rosenbaum
"Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible."
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"When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting."
Paul McCartney
"When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting."
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"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."
Jack Kilby
"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."
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"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
Peter Ustinov
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
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"I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top."
Victoria Jackson
"I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top."
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"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."
Ann Landers
"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."
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"I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."
Wilhelm Steinitz
"I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."
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"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."
Walt Disney
"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."
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"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."
Jackie Cooper
"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."
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"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."
Craig Ferguson
"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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"I never thought about being an actor."
Danny Glover
"I never thought about being an actor."
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