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Thought Quotes
"There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas."
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"I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about."
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"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."
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"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."
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"I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase."
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"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
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"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
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"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."
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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."
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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."
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"Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing."
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"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."
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"The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want."
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"Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer."
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"I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing."
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"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one."
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"My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am."
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"I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on."
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"I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space."
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"When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was."
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"I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously."
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"Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image."
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"We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs."
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"Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything."
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"My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game."
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."
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"I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there."
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"I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times."
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"There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view."
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"To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently."
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"I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it."
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"When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy."
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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."
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"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
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"They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults."
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"I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry."
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