Idea Quotes
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I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
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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.
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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.
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I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.
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You have no idea what you have done.
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The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.
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People better get used to the idea that I exist.
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[On Mao Tse-tung] Mao, he had the right idea but just got bushwhacked.
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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Without action, the world would still be an idea.
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.
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I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
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The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.
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Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
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I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.
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Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
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It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.
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Top Democrats have mixed feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton running for president. Apparently, some Democrats don't like the idea, while others hate it.
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I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.
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If you’re fit now, take advantage of it. If you have a free hour, take advantage of it. If you have an idea now, take advantage of it. All those things are fleeting, and all those things are temporary.
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I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.
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Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.
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The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.
