"Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for."
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"Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them."
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"There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer."
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"After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off."
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"Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea."
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"Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum"
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"There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea that once you're captured in a photograph, then a million presumptions are made of you, and you are forever frozen in that one moment, and you are perceived to be the embodiment of that moment, and that, of course, is an illusion."
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"I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking."
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"I was working with Toby Gad, who spent a lot of time in India. There's a sitar [in "Body Shop"] and the song has a very Indian flavor to it. I liked the idea of the body of a car as a kind of sexual metaphor - What you do to a car, what you do in a car - drive. So, lots of innuendos, and lots of fun."
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"Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities."
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"I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days."
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"I think it would be an excellent idea."
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"Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world."
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"Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought."
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"I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion."
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"I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things."
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"My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity."
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"The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters."
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"It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists."
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"The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting."
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