Norman Tebbit Quotes
The poll tax was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.Norman Tebbit
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder -
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel -
Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
Adam Grant -
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
Lapo Elkann -
Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
Washed Out
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant -
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
Gary Larson -
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
T. D. Jakes -
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
Edmund Phelps -
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
Laura Wade -
After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
Rakul Preet Singh -
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
Gabriel Byrne -
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel -
You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.
Fidel Castro -
Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
Yves Behar
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Danton -
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
Michael Morpurgo -
You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine
Jason Mraz -
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
William James -
The poll tax was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.
Norman Tebbit