All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.
~By Fred Korematsu ~
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
~By Thomas R. Kelly ~
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
~By Dave Navarro ~
There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else.
~By John Elway ~
I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.
~By David M. Brown ~
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
~By Sean Bean ~
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
~By John McGahern ~
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
~By Jonathan Frakes ~
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
~By Maya Lin ~
I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!
~By Will Estes ~
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.
~By Michael Bennett ~
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.
~By Donald McKay ~
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
~By Arthur Golden ~
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
An actor works with their soul and their thought.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.
~By Jo Bonner ~
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
~By Johann Most ~
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
~By Maria Sharapova ~
My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
~By Jones Very ~
I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
~By Sean Bean ~
And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.
~By Emma Anderson ~
I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.
~By Giuseppe Garibaldi ~
Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
~By Julia Barr ~
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
~By Voltaire ~
I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
~By James Kirkwood ~
New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
~By George Murray ~
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
~By Michael Winner ~
When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.
~By Tim LaHaye ~
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.
~By Mark Goddard ~
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.
~By Richard Kern ~
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
~By Jane Wagner ~
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
~By John Selden ~
You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
~By Donna Mills ~
I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.
~By Bill Lee ~
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
~By Henry Ellis ~
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
~By Epictetus ~
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.
~By Juan Cole ~
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
~By Les Baxter ~
Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
~By Jonathan Frid ~
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
~By Paul Graham ~
It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
~By Scipio Africanus ~
I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.
~By Lauren Holly ~
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
~By George Santayana ~
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
~By Ansel Adams ~
While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.
~By Tom Berenger ~
I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
~By Paul Cullen ~
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.
~By Herbert Simon ~
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
~By Len Wein ~
We never thought the first movie would bomb.
~By Kevin McDonald ~
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
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