"The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me."

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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

Lewis Thomas, English Scientist

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"But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly."

David Selby, American Actor

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"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Idea, Rest

"Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea."

Scott Reed, American Political Consultant

Idea, Act, Being

"I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America."

Monica Bellucci, Italian Actress

Idea, America, Reality

"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."

Earl Nightingale, American Entertainer

Idea, Goal, Deep, Fulfillment

"Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme."

Joanna Newsom, American Musician

Idea, Delight, Excitement

"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different."

John Archibald Wheeler, American Physicist

Idea, Opinion, Will

"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish Musician

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"We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one."

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"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."

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"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."

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"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."

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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

"But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly."

"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

"Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea."

"I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America."

"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."

"Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme."

"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different."

"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."

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"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."

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"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."

"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."

"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."

"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."