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"Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing."
Greg Ginn
"Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing."
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"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."
Karl Landsteiner
"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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"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas."
Karl Schlegel
"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas."
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"The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with."
Adam Arkin
"The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with."
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"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
Bruce Lee
"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
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"I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me."
Jeremy London
"I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me."
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"I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast."
Bob Seger
"I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast."
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"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."
Richard Attenborough
"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."
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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"
Franz Schubert
"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"
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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."
Robin Wright Penn
"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."
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"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."
Sean Booth
"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."
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"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
Oprah Winfrey
"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
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"In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy."
Andrew Coyle Bradley
"In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy."
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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?"
John Archibald Wheeler
"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?"
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"There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started."
Siobhan Davies
"There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started."
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"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."
Earl Nightingale
"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."
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"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."
Holly Marie Combs
"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."
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"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."
Dave Foley
"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."
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"The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens."
Luc Montagnier
"The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens."
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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."
Robin Gibb
"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."
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"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea."
Jules Renard
"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea."
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"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."
Lenny Kravitz
"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."
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"The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights."
Shirin Ebadi
"The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights."
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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
Norton Juster
"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
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"I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly."
John Hull
"I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly."
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"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."
Ken Thompson
"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."
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"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on."
Crystal Chappell
"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on."
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"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
William Gilbert
"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
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"A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside."
Loretta Young
"A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside."
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"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."
Josh Lucas
"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."
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"I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces."
Norman Wisdom
"I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces."
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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."
Franz Boas
"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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"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."
Lewis Thomas
"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."
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"This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams."
Kenichi Fukui
"This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams."
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"Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea."
Tim LaHaye
"Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea."
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"My original idea was to produce and not make records myself."
T-Bone Burnett
"My original idea was to produce and not make records myself."
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"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."
Edgard Varese
"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."
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"My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live."
Enya
"My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live."
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"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."
Leonard Nimoy
"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."
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"But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do."
Caroline Corr
"But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do."
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"The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings."
Ali Hoseini Khamenei
"The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings."
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"But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live."
Graham Coxon
"But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live."
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"I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles."
Izabella Scorupco
"I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles."
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"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
Stephen Fry
"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
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"It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong."
Stephen Fry
"It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong."
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"I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence."
Jean-Marie Messier
"I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence."
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"Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are."
Richard O'Brien
"Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are."
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"I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."
Cher
"I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."
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"Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night."
Donna Rice
"Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night."
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"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."
Anne Dudley
"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."
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