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Thought Quotes
"Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get."
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"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."
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"When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through."
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"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast."
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"I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it."
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"All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right."
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"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."
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"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
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"I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this."
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"Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still."
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"I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story."
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"I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."
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"As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready."
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"They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could."
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"Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage."
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"Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources."
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"I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly."
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"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
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"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
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"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."
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"It was a lot of fun on the set. I had the most fun making that movie out of all of them. I'm sure if I sat and thought about it, but none that I could think of offhand."
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"Interpretations of interpretations interpreted."
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"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
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