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Thought Quotes
"I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers."
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"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
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"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
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"I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush."
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"I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional."
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"I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically."
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"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters."
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"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
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"No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.""
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"I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous."
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"Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now."
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"To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist."
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"The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about."
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"I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing."
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"This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible."
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"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual."
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"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world."
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"Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever."
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"I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so."
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"I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts."
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"To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought."
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"The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."
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"When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no."
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"We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it."
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"I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both."
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"Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth."
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"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."
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"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."
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