Thought Quotes
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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
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When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.
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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
