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Idea Quotes
"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
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"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
Idea,
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"As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page."
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"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."
Idea,
50
"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice."
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"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
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"The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights."
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"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had."
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"I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal."
49
"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."
49
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
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"The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me."
Idea,
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"This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning."
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"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."
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"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."
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"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."
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"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."
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"I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl."
48
"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
48
"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
48
"I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue."
48
"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."
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"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now."
48
"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
Idea,
48
"Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are."
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"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?"
47
"I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea."
47
"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."
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"The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me."
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