Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.