Idea Quotes
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But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, because they defined what a president is. They are the idea, and you can't be better than the idea.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
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I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
