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Thought Quotes


"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."


"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."


"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great."


"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"


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


"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 know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything."


"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."


"Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter."


"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."


"While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought."


"Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard."


"They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task."


"I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one."


"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."


"Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky."


"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."


"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."


"I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this."


"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."


"I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."


"There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought."


"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts."


"The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."


"We end the show with something that's never been on TV because it was too big for a sketch but we couldn't stretch it out to make a whole episode because it would have been too long, but we always thought it was really good."


"When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!"


"So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'"


"There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."
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