"When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?"
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"Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be."
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"If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate"
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"The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying."
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"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married."
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"They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea."
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"To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit."
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"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
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"As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington."
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"No one can have an idea once he starts really listening."
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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else."
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"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."
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"When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk."
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"Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them."
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"Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas."
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"Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love."
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"You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting."
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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
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"He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat."
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