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Ideas Quotes
"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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"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."
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"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
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"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."
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"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."
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"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."
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"The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration."
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"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
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"When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas."
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"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
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"Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing."
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"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there."
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"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."
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"Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it."
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"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action."
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"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
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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."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."
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"I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America."
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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."
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"The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise."
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"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
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"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."
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"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."
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"I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness."
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"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."
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"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
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