Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Andy Warhol I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Madonna I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Arne Jacobsen I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Simone Weil I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Arthur Sullivan I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga I am thought. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Alexander Herzen 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.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Babe Ruth I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.
    On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in Joe Jackson: A Biography (2004) by Kelly Boyer Sagert
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Ann Beattie I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Louis Aragon I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Buck Owens I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Marianne Williamson I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
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  • Bryan Ferry I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
    As quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984)
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Germaine Greer I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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