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Thought Quotes


"Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong."


"It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests."


"No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran."


"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."


"I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States."


"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."


"Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."


"I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't."


"I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team."


"We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought."


"I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself."


"I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us."



"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."


"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"


"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."


"No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know."


"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."


"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country."


"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."


"I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter."


"To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought."


"Most of the people who get off at our exit get off by mistake. They thought it was Exit 57."


"I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'"


"We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought."


"Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do."


"They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery."


"I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now."


"Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of."


"In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene."
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