Quotes with thought-dreams

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  • Brendan Dooling Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Updike Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Janet Malcolm Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Napoleon Hill First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bill Janklow Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Cate Blanchett For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bob Seger For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bill Medley For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Annie Besant For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Benjamin Franklin For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord George Byron For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Sullivan For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Francis Bacon Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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