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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."

"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."

Daisy Donovan, British Actress

Ideas, Disaster

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"We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result."

"We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result."

Keith Emerson, British Musician

Ideas, Positive, Day, End

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"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

Nicholas Lea, Canadian Actor

Ideas, Character

24

"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

Ideas, Democracy, Violence

24

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."

Jack Steinberger, American Physicist

23

"I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple."

"I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple."

Sean William Scott, American Actor

Ideas, Deep, Trying

23

"A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here."

"A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here."

Francis Crick, English Scientist

23

"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."

"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."

Stella Adler, American Actress

23

"Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together."

"Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together."

Ajay Naidu, American Actor

Ideas, Acting, Culture, School

23

"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."

"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."

Arto Lindsay, American Musician

23

"Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas."

"Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

23

"But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas."

"But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas."

Mark Rylance, English Actor

23

"The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity."

"The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity."

Arthur E. Waite, British Occultist

22

"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."

"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."

William Scott, American Painter

Ideas, Economy, Help, Painting

22

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

Ideas, Talk, Want

22

"I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions."

"I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions."

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Swedish Musician

Ideas, Giving, Respect

22

"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."

"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

22

"Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook."

"Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook."

Charlie Trotter, American Celebrity

Ideas, Students

22

"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."

"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."

Mark McGrath, American Musician

21

"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."

"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."

John Poindexter, American Public Servant

21

"Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again."

"Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again."

Bruce Boxleitner, American Actor

Ideas, Draft, First, Writer

21

"A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away."

"A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away."

Lou Gramm, American Musician

Ideas, Play, Right, Will

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"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly."

"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian Musician

Ideas, Night, Sleep, Traveling

21

"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."

"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Ideas, First, Foolishness

20

"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."

"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."

Joseph Priestley, English Scientist

Ideas, Doctrine, Nothing, Will

20

"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."

"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

20

"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."

"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

20

"I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece."

"I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece."

Georges Bizet, French Composer

Ideas, Beginning, Nothing, Want

20

"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."

"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."

Douglas Wood, Australian Celebrity

20

"It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor."

"It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor."

Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist

Ideas, Clouds, Land, May

20

"I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh."

"I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh."

Rosamund Pike, British Actress

Ideas, Actor, First

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"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."

"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."

James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician

Ideas, Language, Mathematicians, May

19

"So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper."

"So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper."

Bruce Boxleitner, American Actor

Ideas, Help, Writer

19

"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."

"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."

Frederick Soddy, English Scientist

Ideas, Expression, May, Now

19

"I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together."

"I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

18

"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable."

"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable."

Dave Davies, British Musician

18

"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"

"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"

Andrew McCarthy, American Actor

Ideas, Thinking

18

"Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas."

"Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

Ideas, Revolution

18

"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."

"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."

Mark Caine, American Author

18

"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."

"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Ideas, Meaning, Past

18

"Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing."

"Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing."

Ben Stiller, American Comedian

18

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

John Cage, American Composer

18

"While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community."

"While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community."

Burton Richter, American Scientist

Ideas, Community, Job

18

"I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV."

"I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV."

Tyra Banks, American Model

Ideas, Being, Meeting, Planning

18

"If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas."

"If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas."

Thomas Perry, German Musician

Ideas, Character, Project, Sight

18

"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."

"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."

Jean Genet, French Dramatist

18

"I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class."

"I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class."

Jena Malone, American Actress

Ideas, Children, Class, Want

17

"Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas."

"Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas."

Zakk Wylde, American Musician

Ideas, Now, Song

17

"When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas."

"When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas."

Jean-Louis Trintignant, French Actor

17

"I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes."

"I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes."

Jody Watley, American Musician

Ideas, Singing, Woman, Writing

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