I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically. – Scott Adsit
We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of a comedian is first to entertain. And if you’re so inclined, and you have some bigger thought, make sure you express it, because that’s a gift. – Tom Smothers
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along. – Wallace Shawn
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. – Toni Morrison
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. – Soren Kierkegaard
‘Ice Cold’ is the eighth in my ‘Rizzoli and Isles’ thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the ‘Dugway Incident,’ in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, ‘What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?’ – Tess Gerritsen
After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me. – Tracey Gold
Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she’s so skinny would one day be called too fat? – Tyra Banks
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. – Stockwell Day
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it’s a thought, a dream that may or may not get done. – Summer Sanders
Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. – Stevie Wonder
I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them. – Tommy Hilfiger
I’ve become President of the Author’s Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I’m crazy about it. It’s got some bugs, but it’s basically replaced my laptop. I’m very happy with it. – Scott Turow
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn’t take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams. – Sharon Gless
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust
I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn’t have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it. – Sylvester Stallone
I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files. – Whitfield Diffie
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does. – Stanley Schmidt
Well, no, I didn’t because I didn’t even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn’t even on my radar. I hadn’t… I hadn’t even thought about it. – Will Arnett
I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing. – Wes Bentley
I knew I’d always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, ‘Well, I’d rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one’. – Sarah Waters
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. – Theodor Adorno
I’d always thought that ‘NYPD Blue’ really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don’t think it really did that much for network television. – Steven Bochco
If a girl is not covered from head to toe, it does not mean she is inviting you to ogle at her. If we are interpreting it that way, it is not the girl, but our upbringing that is to be blamed. It is the thought process that needs to be changed. – Sonakshi Sinha
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew. – Scott Anderson
My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder. – Teddy Thompson
My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways. – Samantha Power
My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant – we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city. – Tom Perrotta
I just mean it’s very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn’t get across or I thought I was making one point. – Tea Leoni
