Idea Quotes
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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
Oscar Wilde
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Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more real than our actual experience.
Erwin Schrodinger
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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
Edwidge Danticat
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I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.
Steven Soderbergh
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I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.
Jane Austen
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They will have a much better idea of what the requirements are when they rebuild their house. It will have to meet certain criteria if they have flood insurance.
Marvin Davis
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My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.
Eli Manning
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
John Maynard Keynes
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
Lance Henriksen
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There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees
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I think the soul of an entrepreneur is to keep trying until you find the successful idea.
Sabeer Bhatia
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I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style.
Queen Latifah
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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Lukas Foss
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Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?
James Hilton
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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
Plato
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“Paganism sacralizes and thereby exalts this world whereas Judeo-Christian monotheism sanctifies and thereby retreats from this world. Paganism is based on the idea of the sacred.”
Alain de Benoist
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Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.
Will Eisner
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The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.
Sydney Brenner
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I like the idea of helping people help people.
Bryan Adams
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Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.
Albert Einstein
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From then on, my idea of grace is fulfilling your talent completely, and my only idea of sin is misusing that gift. The dread of not becoming completely what you can be is so strong that sometimes later in life it will paralyze me. How horrible to do the wrong thing, the thing that doesn't express your essence - and how horrible to fall short of your powers, or to discover that they might be more meager than their seemingly limitless potential!
Eva Hoffman
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The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.
Vir Das