I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.
‐‐ Marlen Esparza
I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'
‐‐ Maria Bamford
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
‐‐ Adam Johnson
I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.
‐‐ Christopher Atkins
I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
‐‐ Doris Lessing
I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.
‐‐ Mickey Hart
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.
‐‐ Michel Hazanavicius
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
‐‐ Neil Armstrong
I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.
‐‐ Jason Statham
I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
‐‐ Ruth Handler
I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
‐‐ Ruth Brown
I thought the best way to topple Assad was not through airstrikes, but through equipping the moderate rebel elements.
‐‐ Marco Rubio
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
‐‐ Erykah Badu
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner
I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
‐‐ Earle Combs
I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.
‐‐ David Quammen
I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris
I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.
‐‐ Paul Haggis
I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned 'Saw' as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.
‐‐ James Wan
I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette
I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
‐‐ Dylan Moran
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.
‐‐ Michael Reagan
I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
‐‐ Anne Rice
I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.
‐‐ Duncan Jones
I thought the suit was something that would suit me.
‐‐ Jidenna
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
‐‐ George McGovern
I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.
‐‐ Sarah Sutton
I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
‐‐ George Grosz
I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
‐‐ Maidie Norman
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston
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.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter
I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
‐‐ Emma Bonino
I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.
‐‐ Clark Gregg
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy
I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara
I thought they loved me, and they would scarcely have known it if I had died. All through our troubles, I was comforted with the thought that the brethren in Maulmain and America were praying for us, and they have never once thought of us.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson
I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.
‐‐ Todd Barry
I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.
‐‐ Julian Clary
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
‐‐ George Takei
I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.
‐‐ Jeff Goldblum
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
‐‐ Barry Sheene
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
‐‐ Edward Grey
I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.
‐‐ Matt Reeves
I thought 'Thor' would just be fun.
‐‐ Rene Russo
I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
‐‐ Beth Ditto
I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
‐‐ John Candy