Ideas Quotes
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
Garry Trudeau
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Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.
Patrick Geddes
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I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.
George Clooney
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It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
Julia Roberts
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Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.
Alfred Einstein
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I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
Thomas A. Edison
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
Fidel Castro
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
Safra A. Catz
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Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.
Hafez Nazeri
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The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
Lois Wyse
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
Kate Bush
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
Naomi Klein
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Sam Walton
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
Obie Trice
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A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.
Oliver Gaspirtz
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I am burger obsessed and I love playing with the idea of what a burger can be for people. I make burgers out of everything from grains to seafood to, of course, browned meats of every kind. What I love about the burger is it makes food accessible and fun for everyone.
Rachael Ray
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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
D. W. Griffith
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An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
Cheri Huber
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
B. Carroll Reece
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There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.
Lake Bell
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
Washed Out
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What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.
Victor LaValle
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
Viggo Mortensen