I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.
When I plummeted into infamy in the Calgary Olympics, I never thought that a film would be made about my life.
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.
Even during my short film days, I approached theatres with the idea of playing them during the interval. They thought it was problematic to screen an offbeat short film in between a commercial film.
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.
Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.
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.
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.