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"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there."
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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."
"The exchange rate for ideas is infinite."
"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."
"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"
"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."
"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."
"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."
"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."
"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
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"I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful."
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"We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that."
"We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known."
"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing."
"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to."
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