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"It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say."
"I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future."
"[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations"
"The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom."
"If you work with so many classical instruments... I mean, it still has this power, and it's still connected to the idea of techno. But it has its own quality, its own sound. It's in between, even more than the record before. You need to give every instrument, sound, and element the space it needs."
"Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing."
"My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps."
"I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life."
"Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?"
"The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind."
"Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity."
"One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on."
"There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve."
"We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American"
"I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting."
"The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas."
"Action is thought tempered by illusion."
"I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas."
"I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker."
"Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy."
