Idea Quotes
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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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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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
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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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The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.
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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'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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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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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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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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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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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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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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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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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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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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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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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.
