Sigmund Freud Quotes
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
Gary Ackerman -
I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
Rachel Nichols -
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
Nancy Pelosi -
I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
Larry King -
I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
Vernon Wells
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
Edmonia Lewis -
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
Waylon Jennings -
I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
Larry Wilmore -
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
Sam Kean -
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
Zaha Hadid
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
Gary Sheffield -
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
Daisy Ridley -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
Imre Kertesz -
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
Ulrich Beck
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The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'
Mirai Nagasu -
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. Chidambaram -
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
Sigmund Freud