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"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
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"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"

"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."

"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."

"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."

"I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen."

"I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants."

"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
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"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."

"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
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