"I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now."
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"You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea."
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"I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words."
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"To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism."
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"Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting."
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"It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas."
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"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
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"It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country."
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"I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of ideas about our place in the universe has been a long series of let-downs for those who like to believe we are special."
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"I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years."
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"Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information."
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"The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes."
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"Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea."
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"In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues."
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"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God"
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"One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years."
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"I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast"
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"Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea."
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"There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific."
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"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."
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