Ideas Quotes
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound
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We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
Errico Malatesta
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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.
George Ritzer
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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.
Anton Webern
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I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.
Michel Gondry
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I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.
Fever Ray
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It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.
Steve Martin
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The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
Carroll Quigley
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I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.
Hilary Mantel
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When the customer is wrong it is not a good idea to tell them.
Garrison Wynn
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert Spencer
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
William James
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As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.
Daniel Pfeiffer
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Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.
Nick Hodgson
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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.
Carl Zimmer
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
Haruki Murakami
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I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.
Simon Baker
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I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
Howie Mandel
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
Victor Hugo
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley
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Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
Steven Johnson
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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Evita Peron
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I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.
Art Wolfe