Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.
Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.
I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.
I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.
I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.
It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.
It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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.
In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.
I really like the character of Jack Reacher - I thought he was interesting.
In 2005, the last year of his life, Ahmad Abu Adass was 22 and still living with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon. He was kind and liked people, his friends later told investigators, but none of them thought he was very sophisticated.
Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.
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.
As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
I'm feeling much better than I have been for many years. You know, I... there have been a couple of days when I thought maybe I wasn't going to make it to the evening. I don't feel that anymore.
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.
