Idea Quotes
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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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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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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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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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'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.
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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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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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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 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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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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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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Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
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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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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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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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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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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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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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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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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.
