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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."

"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, English Composer

Idea, Sound, Want

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"I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything."

"I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything."

Jerry Seinfeld, American Comedian

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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."

"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."

Donald Johanson, American Scientist

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"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."

"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Idea, Being, Errors, Mind

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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."

"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."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

Idea, Healing, May, Spirituality

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"I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider."

"I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider."

Robert Atkins, American Celebrity

Idea, Appetite, Weight

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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."

"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."

Jhonen Vasquez, American Cartoonist

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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

John Ciardi, English Dramatist

Idea, Hope, Question

20

"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."

"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish Musician

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"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future."

"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future."

Kathy Mattea, American Musician

Idea, Future, Trying

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"We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance."

"We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance."

John Cale, Welsh Musician

Idea, Performance, Trying

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"I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it."

"I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it."

Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

Idea, Being, Light

19

"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."

"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."

Derek Bailey, English Musician

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"The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me."

"The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me."

Dan Farmer, American Scientist

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"A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up."

"A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up."

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian Entertainer

19

"I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part."

"I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part."

Jeremy Northam, English Actor

Idea, Energy, First, Security

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"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."

"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."

Fred Frith, English Composer

Idea, Songs, Sound

19

"I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting."

"I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting."

Ray Davies, English Musician

19

"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."

"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."

James L. Brooks, American Producer

Idea, Decency, Marketing

19

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

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"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."

"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."

Barbara Jordan, American Lawyer

Idea, Country, Principles

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"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."

"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."

Geoff Downes, English Musician

Idea, Environment, Road

19

"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."

"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."

John Lithgow, American Actor

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"We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen."

"We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen."

James Frank, American Physicist

Idea, Character, Name

19

"Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us."

"Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us."

Audrey Meadows, American Actress

19

"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."

"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

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"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."

"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."

John Cleese, English Actor

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"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

Asa Gray, American Scientist

Idea, Knowledge, Beliefs, Books

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"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."

"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

Idea, Chance, Partnership

19

"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural."

"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural."

Jessica Lange, American Actress

Idea, Virtue, Selfishness

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"I just had an idea that went right over my head."

"I just had an idea that went right over my head."

Lawrence Welk, American Musician

19

"New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South."

"New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South."

Josh Lucas, American Actor

19

"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."

"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."

Stephen Wolfram, English Scientist

Idea, World, Years

18

"So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel."

"So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel."

Daryl Hannah, American Actress

18

"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."

"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."

Jackson Browne, American Musician

18

"I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials."

"I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials."

Alton Brown, American Entertainer

18

"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."

"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

18

"As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like."

"As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like."

Billy Eckstine, American Musician

Idea, Fact, Reason

18

"I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less."

"I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less."

William John Wills, English Scientist

Idea, Fact, Practice

18

"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."

"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."

Alan Rickman, British Actor

18

"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."

"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."

Lee Harvey Oswald, American Criminal

Idea, Revolution, Man

18

"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."

"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."

Ugo Betti, Italian Playwright

Idea, Man, Nothing

18

"So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea."

"So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea."

Josh Lucas, American Actor

18

"I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show."

"I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show."

Michael Shanks, Canadian Actor

Idea, Character, Mind

18

"I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane."

"I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane."

Kelly Jones, Welsh Musician

Idea, Ritual, Road, Songs

18

"You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap."

"You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap."

Steve Tyler, American Musician

18

"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."

"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."

Kate Smith, American Musician

18

"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."

"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."

Vincent D'Onofrio, American Actor

Idea, Celebrity

18

"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."

"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."

John Sebastian, American Musician

18

"As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice."

"As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice."

Christy Turlington, American Model

Idea, Pain, Practice, Spiritual

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