Idea Quotes
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I was keen on the idea of being famous. From as long as I can remember, I danced around the kitchen. I would dance around and sing and pretend that one day, somebody would break down from the big places and maybe wander over to our house to see if they could borrow our phone. They'd look in the window and see me prancing around and say, 'We found a star!' Beyond that, which is totally a kid dreaming, I was never under any belief that what we were doing was leading toward something. There was never any sort of formula.
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Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
