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Ideas Quotes
"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."
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"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action."
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"Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it."
40
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"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."
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"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
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"I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way."
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"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."
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"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."
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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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"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
39
"In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left."
39
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
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"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."
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"In a battle between - two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it."
39
"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?"
38
"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece."
38
"I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants."
38
"I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together."
37
"I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop."
37
"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course."
37
"I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen."
37
"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."
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"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
36
"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."
36
"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
36
"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
36
"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."
36
"If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly."
36
"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."
35
"I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal."
35
"Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe."
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