Idea Quotes
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I love the idea of being out there with little or no net.
Alan Alda -
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
Claudia Schiffer
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides -
You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.
Ivar Giaever -
An idea is a feat of association.
Robert Frost -
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot -
I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
Angelique Kidjo
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He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
Baruch Spinoza -
This idea of artistry, this idea of creativity... Ultimately, it has to be just real talk. We have to give a common way for people to access the world around them - even just words and terminology that we know are representative of the future.
Eli Russell Linnetz -
If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
Chuck Klosterman -
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
Bernard-Henri Levy -
The main idea of the album was to translate different styles with just one sound. It was really hard to do that. It’s exactly the same when you see a guy – he’s one guy but he can have several different emotions. That’s the best way to explain it.
Mike Levy -
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke Nazareth
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I wrote Collateral Beauty on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.
Allan Loeb -
Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
Francis Ford Coppola -
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
Abraham Lincoln -
Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys -
Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.
Georges Doriot
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
Victor Hugo -
I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips and alabaster thighs, the idea of doing this for the rest of our lives doesn’t seem all that daunting. She’s the last reprieve. The stay of execution. She gives me hope. But times are tough for dreamers. And even if my dream is a simple one — all I want is for Her to be in love with me forever — I know it’s still a long shot. Life ruins everything.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy -
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust