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Thought Quotes
"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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"To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing."
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"We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before."
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"Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story."
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"In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened."
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"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that."
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"The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements."
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"Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word."
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"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought."
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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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"When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't."
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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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"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
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"Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has."
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"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural."
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"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker."
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"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts."
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"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."
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"When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring."
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"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."
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"I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry."
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
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"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."
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"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
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"You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!"
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"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."
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"But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know."
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"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear."
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"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."
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"We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought."
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"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."
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"When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence."
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"Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero."
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"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead."
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