Idea Quotes
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One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.
Colin Farrell
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I think it all started with the tuna sandwich, and then, on the road, gearing up for New York, Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] had the idea of having a tuna puppet, which became Tony Tuna, and their friend Cammi Upton designed that and did a great job.
Alex Timbers
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie and the Banshees
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From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
Craig Newmark
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Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result.
Ben Affleck
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Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.
Sharleen Spiteri
Texas
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One important point about the idea that there are multiple globalizations is the fact that it further complicates the whole idea of finding a point of origin for globalization.
George Ritzer
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I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.
Edward Boyden
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We've got a solid balanced approach, ... No one has any idea what the cost implication would be if you went too far.
Dennis Hastert
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I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.
Rachel Caine
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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.
James Hutton
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I originally had the stupid idea of doing a record with only male artists that I wanted to call Playing With Balls. Then I had so many songs, not all of which sounded like big, balls-y songs so I changed my concept a little bit. However, I still want to do that album, but only with industrial, rock, and macho guys. I'll sing over all of it if they're not too scared to let me do that...grrrr.
Hanin Elias
Atari Teenage Rio
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
Hippolyte Taine
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
Bill Gates
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It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?
Tami Hoag
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Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
Pythagoras
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I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.
Amandla Stenberg
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I think it's generally a bad idea for the Fed to be the arbiter of asset prices. The Fed doesn't really have any better information than other people in the market about what the correct value of asset prices is.
Ben Bernanke
