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Idea Quotes
"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."
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"And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing."
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"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
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"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."
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"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."
Idea,
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"The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting."
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"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
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"I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing."
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"Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored."
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"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."
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"But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures."
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"When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun."
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"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,
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"We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention."
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"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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"What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive."
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"Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea."
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"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."
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"The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft."
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"I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all."
Idea,
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"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas."
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"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
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"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."
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