Ideas Quotes
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First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose.
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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A guy saw us play there and he asked us what the name of the band was. He liked the name but came back with some ideas.He had a letter (of the alphabet) for each of us: X, Y, and Z. He gave Question Mark the "?".
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A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.
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A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.
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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
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What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.
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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.
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I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.
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How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.
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Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
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Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
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Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand
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...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
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Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.
