Idea Quotes
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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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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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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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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 waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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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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 dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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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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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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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 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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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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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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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.
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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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Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
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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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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
