Idea Quotes
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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
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A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
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When you’re first thinking through an idea, it’s important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly, is hard to do.
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As far as the rock 'n' roll format in dance music goes, I don't think it's been done before with such full-on attitude. The idea behind that was because no-one else hade done it. Everything was right at the time for us to do that.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying the act of sex itself. I don't think Buddhism has ever done that necessarily, or at least I'm not aware of Buddhism taking the stance that Christianity often has which says that sex itself is a kind of evil act, which is a really weird idea.
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There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."
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Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
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The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.
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Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.
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Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.
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One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
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Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.
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The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
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You need more than an idea to run a business.
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The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.
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I love the romantic idea of there being a Creator, a God, that created all of these lovely things – children and falling in love and all that whole thing
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When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."
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An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
