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Ideas Quotes
"There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction."
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"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
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"I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful."
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"I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation."
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"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied."
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"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."
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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."
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"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."
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"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."
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"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."
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"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated."
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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."
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"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."
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"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
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"Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine."
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"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."
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"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots."
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"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."
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"I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes."
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"That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward."
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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."
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"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
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"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."
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"Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible."
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"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
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