"There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth."
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"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease."
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"I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy."
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"It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator. The people down here just ate that up!"
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"It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas."
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"I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz."
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"I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth."
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"I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is."
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"Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her."
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"Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with."
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"In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn."
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"The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God."
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"The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy."
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"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."
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"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
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"But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it."
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"I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there"
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"I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way"
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"I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired."
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"I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me."
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