"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."
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"I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."
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"In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write."
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"I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something."
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"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it"
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"Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God."
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"The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate."
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"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."
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"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea."
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"My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing."
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"I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world."
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"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms."
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"The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others."
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"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
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"There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications."
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"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."
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"Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive."
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"The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization."
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"Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises."
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