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"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
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"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."
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"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."
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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"
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"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."
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"Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."
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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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"Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas."
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"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."
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"We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge."
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"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
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"British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target."
Politics
"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
People
"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."
Day
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
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"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
People
"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education."
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"In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian."
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"I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening."
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