Idea Quotes
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The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
Flannery O'Connor
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Later in the morning a messenger brought Mr Reeder to the chief's office, and he arrived with that ineffable air of apology and diffidence which gave the uninitiated such an altogether wrong idea of his calibre.
Edgar Wallace
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I had a very important personal point to make with this song I Want Your Sex. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.
George Michael
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Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."
Shailene Woodley
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When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.
Eric Ries
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The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.
Ezra Klein
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Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
Nick D'Aloisio
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Lenin may be proud of what his comrades are doing; the Russian workers are acquiring immortal glory in attempting the realization of what hitherto had been only an abstract idea…..
Georges Sorel
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Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
Ken Robinson
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You usually get a script and you tell people what the story's about, and they have no idea what's going on. Whereas with an adaptation, you come into it, and it seems like everyone you talk to has a million opinions on the cast and the way the story should be told.
Emma Stone
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I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.
Edward Zigler
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But whenever you think, ‘this is an exciting idea’ and immediately follow that by thinking, ‘this is a very stupid idea’ then you know you are on to a good thing and that you will regret it if you wimp out.
Alastair Humphreys
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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
Bill Gates
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SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
Bill Gates
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Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
Arturo Graf
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Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.
Alexander H. Stephens
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The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
Edwin Schlossberg
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I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.
Robin Williams
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Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
Seth Godin
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But Id say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.
Tom Kite
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I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy.
Betty Hutton