Thought
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I
thought
that I was indebted even to Bobby Finkel, because all those earlier experiences were what had propelled me to this moment, and I was finally unconditionally grateful for a life I'd once have done anything to change.
I mean, they looked the same, but no one
thought
of them that way.
I mean, we
thought
of these animals as mysterious and terrifying lords of the Arctic.
Frankly, I joined the Army because college is really damn expensive, and they were going to help with that, and I joined the Army because it was what I knew, and it was what I knew that I
thought
I could do well.
And that was how I first got introduced to this whole idea of the military, because she
thought
this was a good idea.
And I
thought
about the people who I respected and admired.
I
thought
about a lot of the people, in particular a lot of the men, in my life who I looked up to.
And I
thought
about so much about the soldiers who I eventually had to end up leading.
When I first came back from Afghanistan, I
thought
that if you make it back from conflict, then the dangers were all over.
I
thought
that if you made it back from a conflict zone that somehow you could kind of wipe the sweat off your brow and say, "Whew, I'm glad I dodged that one," without understanding that for so many people, as they come back home, the war keeps going.
I certainly never
thought
I would be doing other people's taxes, but here I am.
(Lizzie laughs) I
thought
the day would get better, and unfortunately, it didn't.
For so long I
thought
what defined me was my outer appearance.
I
thought
that my little tiny legs, and my little arms, and my little face were ugly.
I
thought
I was disgusting.
I cried my eyes out of course, and I was ready to fight back and something kind of clicked in my head, and I thought, "I'm just going to leave it alone."
(Lizzie laughs) You made me lose my train of
thought!
And I thought, wow, that's really cool, and I have absolutely no idea what to do with that.
So I thought, "I will talk about death."
That seems like a pretty counterintuitive
thought.
If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you
thought
about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.
So there's a big change, and that division, that intellectual division of labor occurs as I say, I think, and it sort of solidifies so that by the end of the 19th century in Europe, there's a real intellectual division of labor, and you can do all sorts of serious things, including, increasingly, even philosophy, without being constrained by the thought, "Well, what I have to say has to be consistent with the deep truths that are given to me by our religious tradition."
The poet Frank O'Hara said, "If you don't need poetry, bully for you," but he also said when he didn't want to be alive anymore, the
thought
that he wouldn't write any more poems had stopped him.
Poems, the patterns in poems, show us not just what somebody
thought
or what someone did or what happened but what it was like to be a person like that, to be so anxious, so lonely, so inquisitive, so goofy, so preposterous, so brave.
Fifty years ago, I wrote a paper describing how I
thought
the brain worked, and I described it as a series of modules.
So at first they
thought
they were triggering some kind of laugh reflex, but no, they quickly realized they had found the points in her neocortex that detect humor, and she just found everything hilarious whenever they stimulated these points.
Many of us never
thought
that this was possible until the moment that it happened.
I
thought
it would be a safe way to do something positive, but of course I have the absolute worst luck ever, and we were all arrested.
Perhaps they
thought
universal access was a feature, not a bug, until two months ago when a group of hackers used it to get into people's files.
I thought, that's the way it is.
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