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Thought Quotes


"Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety."


"When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?"


"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."


"Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk."


"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."



"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."


"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."


"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree."


"I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry."


"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."


"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."


"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."


"So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else."


"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."


"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."


"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."


"But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know."


"Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer."


"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."


"I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am."


"I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there."


"There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great."


"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."


"I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry."


"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."


"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."


"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."


"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw."


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


"I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better."


"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."


"Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable."


"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."


"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."
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