Quotes with thought-tyrants

Quotes 261 till 280 of 849.

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W. Bruce Cameron I read that all dogs have wolf DNA in them, which seemed preposterous because my dog, Tucker, is... afraid of plastic bags blowing in the wind. I thought, 'How can Tucker have wolf in him? How can this be?' So I started researching it.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Iain Banks I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • George F. Will I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Anne Frank I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • T. S. Eliot I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Virginia Woolf I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Buffalo Bill I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • J. G. Ballard I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bill Engvall I thought RV stood for Recreational Vehicle. No! It stands for Ruins Vacations.
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    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Edmund Burke I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Anita Hill I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Anne Rice I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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