Ideas Quotes
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
Dana Perino
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
Fidel Castro
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
Yves Behar
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
Dana Schutz
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
Mae Jemison
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
John Roy Anderson Yes
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I stay current and draw inspiration from Fashion Week in New York as well as just by scrolling through Instagram. The runways are always a good sign of what's to come, but I also get tons of ideas from real girls on the street.
Elaine Welteroth
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How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'
Jim Gaffigan
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
Salman Rushdie
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It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
Nancy Pelosi
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
Dane Cook
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.
Valeria Lukyanova
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
Walter Gropius
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
Rachel Joyce
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
Dan Deacon
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
Ian Axel
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. Wilson