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Thought Quotes
"The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play."
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"I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties."
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"Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage."
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"Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts."
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"I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing."
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"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late."
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"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
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"I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out."
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"You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth."
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"A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner."
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"As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher."
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"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."
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"So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do."
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"Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained-something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know."
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"As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician."
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"To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique."
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"I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself."
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"And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves."
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"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'"
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"I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public."
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"When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'"
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"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."
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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
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"I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that."
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"I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not."
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"I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one."
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"It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it."
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"Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building."
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
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"Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in."
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"I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World."
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"Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps."
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