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Idea Quotes
"Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them."
85
"Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments."
75
"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."
59
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
57
"No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite."
49
"It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight."
39
"When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression."
36
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
35
"Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with."
33
"What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you."
33
"The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting."
32
"I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind."
32
"I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike."
31
"So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are."
31
"I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn."
31
"There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion."
30
"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana."
29
"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
Idea,
29
"You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels."
Idea,
28
"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."
28
"As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway."
28
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
27
"No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic."
27
"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."
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