I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
~By Ken Venturi ~
The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.
~By Fay Wray ~
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.
~By Lil' Kim ~
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.
~By Dario Argento ~
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.
~By Lawrence Taylor ~
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
~By James Allen ~
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
~By William Wells Brown ~
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
~By Casey Kasum ~
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
~By John Grierson ~
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
~By Sallust ~
It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
~By Carl Hubbell ~
I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.
~By Lennart Nilsson ~
Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.
~By Mark Kelly ~
It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.
~By Harmon Killebrew ~
I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.
~By Margot Kidder ~
Thought is made in the mouth.
~By Tristan Tzara ~
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
~By Laura Linney ~
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
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.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
~By Bruce Cockburn ~
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
~By James Cameron ~
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
~By Juliet Mills ~
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
~By Bill Janklow ~
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.
~By Mathias Rust ~
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
~By Brian Greene ~
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
~By Mick Taylor ~
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
~By Ramana Maharshi ~
I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.
~By Kristin Davis ~
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
~By Jacques-Louis David ~
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
~By Uta Hagen ~
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
~By Natasha Richardson ~
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.
~By Karl Kraus ~
I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.
~By Julius Erving ~
I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
~By Tyra Banks ~
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
~By Cate Blanchett ~
I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.
~By Don Novello ~
I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~By William Wordsworth ~
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
~By Shimon Peres ~
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
~By Len Wein ~
One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.
~By Charles Phillips ~
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~By Sophia Loren ~
I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
~By Frances Bean Cobain ~
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
~By Morarji Desai ~
No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back."
~By Sophia Loren ~
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.
~By Chris Matthews ~
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
~By James Earl Jones ~
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
~By Birch Bayh ~
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
~By Franz Kafka ~
But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
~By Treat Williams ~
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
~By Sherwood Anderson ~
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
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 ~
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
~By Michel Foucault ~
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
~By Neil Diamond ~
Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
~By Eli Wallach ~
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
~By Casey Kasem ~
Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.
~By Andrea Mitchell ~
I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.
~By Clara Hughes ~
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
~By Larry Miller ~
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.
~By Sammy Gravano ~
I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
~By Alex Chilton ~
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
~By Steven Wright ~
Back in those days we thought we could change the world.
~By Alvin Lee ~
They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.
~By Corbin Bernsen ~
You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
~By Hermann Broch ~
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
~By Richard Lugar ~
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