Thought Quotes
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
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The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
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The real point is that all this is happening without rules and boundaries and thought and legislation. The information is now so unlimited and so discretionary, and the privacy issues spring from that lack of boundaries.
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Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
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There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
