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Thought Quotes
"My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m."
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"And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography."
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"Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard."
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"I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?"
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"I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen."
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"I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie."
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"I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself."
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"I never really thought about becoming a professional musician."
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"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing."
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"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
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"This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found."
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"But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you."
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"I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it."
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"I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it."
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"But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide."
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"I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought."
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"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."
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"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights."
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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"
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"The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it."
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"So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole."
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"Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying."
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"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."
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"A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around."
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"I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man."
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"I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them."
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