Ideas Quotes
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Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.
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If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
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... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.
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I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.
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We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.
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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
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Cultural imperialism involved, among many other things, exploration, missionary and humanitarian missions, travel, and the use of education and publishing to disseminate European ideas.
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When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.
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Two weeks in Hawaii with four kids is one of the dumber ideas I've ever had.
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If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.
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Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.
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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
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I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.
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I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.
