Idea Quotes
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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack
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I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?
Paul Krugman
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In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
Sarah Vowell
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
Elaine Equi
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The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.
Stephen Gilchrist Glover
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Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology.
Sarah Parcak
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The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
Marcel Proust
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
Haruki Murakami
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
Tony Abbott
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I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
Siegfried Woldhek
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I do love the idea of ritual.
Sarah Silverman
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I think it would be an excellent idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective
Anthony Robbins
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
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Focus on execution rather than just the idea.
Anthony Robbins
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I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.
Heather Graham
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I am sickened by the idea that anyone would think of me in racist terms.
Steve Clevenger
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Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.
Johnny Depp
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We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.
Nikola Tesla
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It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
Ellis Paul Torrance
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The whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.
Ellen Wittlinger
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While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.
Neil Flynn