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"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."
"I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat."
"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."
"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."
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