"blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mom."..."
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Harry Potter
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"one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are..."
Full 'Gloria Vanderbilt' Quote
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Gloria Vanderbilt
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"to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the..."
Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote
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Dizzy Gillespie
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"...we live in a universe which is the Idea, or Dream of its Creator."
Full 'Evelyn Underhill' Quote
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Evelyn Underhill
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"[I]n the last twenty-five years, [the idea of] man as "the enemy"..."
Full 'Karen Decrow' Quote
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Karen Decrow
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"thing meditation frees you from is the idea of "do-ership," the..."
Full 'Phylicia Rashad' Quote
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Phylicia Rashad
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"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and"
Full 'Helen Rowland' Quote
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Helen Rowland
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"celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress..."
Full 'Carl Sagan' Quote
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Carl Sagan
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"nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof..."
Full 'Claude Bernard' Quote
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Claude Bernard
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"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."
Full 'Jean Ingelow' Quote
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Jean Ingelow
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"die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote
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John F Kennedy
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"rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."
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John F Kennedy
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"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea"
Full 'Mary Kay Ash' Quote
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Mary Kay Ash
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
Full 'Marcel Proust' Quote
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Marcel Proust
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"All beliefs are bald ideas."
Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote
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Francis Picabia
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"Christianity, Islam and Judaism -- have a hateful idea at the very core...."
Full 'Matthew Parris' Quote
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Matthew Parris
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"wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work "comes"..."
Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote
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W. H. Auden
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it,..."
Full 'Pablo Picasso' Quote
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Pablo Picasso
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"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of..."
Full 'Georg Hegel' Quote
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Georg Hegel
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"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of..."
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it..."
Full 'Richard Bach' Quote
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Richard Bach
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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
Full 'Don Marquis' Quote
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Don Marquis
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"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over"
Full 'F Scott Fitzgerald' Quote
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
Full 'Oscar Wilde' Quote
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Oscar Wilde
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"curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Full 'Marie Curie' Quote
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Marie Curie
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"the birth of a child or the birth of an idea."
Full 'Marianne Williamson' Quote
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Marianne Williamson
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". the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at..."
Full 'Paul Gauguin' Quote
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Paul Gauguin
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"Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire-- that was my idea of what it was supposed to..."
Full 'Sharon Stone' Quote
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Sharon Stone
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"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
Full 'Helen Keller' Quote
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Helen Keller
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"notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all"
Full 'Don Marquis' Quote
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Don Marquis
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"Do you get ideas from children? Do you ask children what they're interested..."
Full 'J K Rowling' Quote
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J K Rowling
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"Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea..."
Full 'Al Capone' Quote
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Al Capone
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"'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea"
Full 'Wyndham Lewis' Quote
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Wyndham Lewis
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"reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly..."
Full 'Victor Kiam' Quote
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Victor Kiam
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"Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in..."
Full 'Barbara Cartland' Quote
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Barbara Cartland
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"of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's..."
Full 'Joan C Harvey' Quote
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Joan C Harvey
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"should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for..."
Full 'Rowan Atkinson' Quote
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Rowan Atkinson
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"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done"
Full 'Walt Disney' Quote
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Walt Disney
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"Getting ideas is like shaving; if you don't do it every day, you're a bum."
Full 'Alexander Kroll' Quote
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Alexander Kroll
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"years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play...."
Full 'Gary Player' Quote
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Gary Player
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""reporting" based on William Faulkner's idea that the best..."
Full 'Hunter S Thompson' Quote
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Hunter S Thompson
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"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds"
Full 'Laurence Peter' Quote
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Laurence Peter
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"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."
Full 'Euripides' Quote
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Euripides
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"history in essence is the history of ideas."
Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote
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H. G. Wells
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"think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was..."
Full 'Clarence Thomas' Quote
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Clarence Thomas
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"believe everything begins with a positive idea... The mind is your most"
Full 'Ron Jaworski' Quote
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Ron Jaworski
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"a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me..."
Full 'Grace Paley' Quote
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Grace Paley
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"believe in all these man-made institutional ideas...."
Full 'George Carlin' Quote
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George Carlin
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"writer, I'm pulled by stories, not by ideas; I see the world in the stories..."
Full 'Sara Paretsky' Quote
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Sara Paretsky
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"I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but..."
Full 'Margaret Anderson' Quote
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Margaret Anderson
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"one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you..."
Full 'Cecil Rhodes' Quote
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Cecil Rhodes
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"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the"
Full 'John Erskine' Quote
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John Erskine
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"I have no idea what motivated me to try again. I felt like giving it a..."
Full 'Jim Carrey' Quote
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Jim Carrey
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"there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas...."
Full 'Jack Handy' Quote
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Jack Handy
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"you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching...."
Full 'Jack Handy' Quote
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Jack Handy
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"large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to..."
Full 'Alfred Nobel' Quote
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Alfred Nobel
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"I passionately hate the idea of being "with it," I think an..."
Full 'Orson Welles' Quote
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Orson Welles
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"and finish the song with a different idea...."
Full 'Courtney Love' Quote
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Courtney Love
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"playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular"
Full 'J August Strindberg' Quote
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J August Strindberg
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"still miss the Latin Mass; I liked the idea that you could attend Mass..."
Full 'Oliver North' Quote
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Oliver North
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"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music...."
Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote
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Dizzy Gillespie
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"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea..."
Full 'James Garfield' Quote
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James Garfield
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"Ideas are, in truth, force."
Full 'Henry James' Quote
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Henry James
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"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just"
Full 'Jim Rohn' Quote
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Jim Rohn
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"Ideas control the world."
Full 'James Garfield' Quote
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James Garfield
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"Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have"
Full 'Steve Allen' Quote
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Steve Allen
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"Ideas in the mind are magnifcant but when spoken are barely adequate."
Full 'Brian Cullins' Quote
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Brian Cullins
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"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or..."
Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented."
Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote
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Hannah Arendt
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"Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of"
Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote
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Dizzy Gillespie
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"If a person holds irrational ideas and insists that others should accept..."
Full 'Ray Ginger' Quote
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Ray Ginger
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"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am"
Full 'Alfred Nobel' Quote
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Alfred Nobel
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"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to..."
Full 'Grace Hopper' Quote
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Grace Hopper
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"might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'..."
Full 'Rebecca West' Quote
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Rebecca West
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"If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt."
Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote
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Francis Picabia
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"storyteller. For a while, I toyed with the idea of trying to review books,..."
Full 'Louise Erdrich' Quote
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Louise Erdrich
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"the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions..."
Full 'George Carlin' Quote
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George Carlin
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"marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning..."
Full 'Michael J Fox' Quote
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Michael J Fox
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""scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are..."
Full 'Cynthia Ozick' Quote
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Cynthia Ozick
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"satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings..."
Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote
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Alfred Kazin
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"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false"
Full 'Edgar Degas' Quote
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Edgar Degas
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"the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs...."
Full 'William Osler' Quote
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William Osler
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"mere mortals. The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have..."
Full 'Heywood Broun' Quote
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Heywood Broun
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"In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses."
Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote
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Heinrich Heine
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"facing each other . But if you have some idea, then you will see your own..."
Full 'Osho' Quote
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Osho
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"band, I wanted to bring some of these ideas into it...."
Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote
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Jim Morrison
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real"
Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote
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Winston Churchill
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"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
Full 'John Maynard Keynes' Quote
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John Maynard Keynes
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"heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas...."
Full 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky' Quote
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
Full 'George Byron' Quote
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George Byron
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"stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and..."
Full 'Emily Bronte' Quote
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Emily Bronte
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"I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with"
Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote
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Vladimir Nabokov
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"Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully...."
Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote
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Thomas Edison
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"science, and words are but the signs of ideas...."
Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote
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Samuel Johnson
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"about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky."
Full 'Boris Yeltsin' Quote
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Boris Yeltsin
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"cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above..."
Full 'Leon Trotsky' Quote
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Leon Trotsky
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"invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed."
Full 'Tom Clancy' Quote
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Tom Clancy
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"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear"
Full 'Paul Eldridge' Quote
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Paul Eldridge
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"Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an..."
Full 'John Wanamaker' Quote
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John Wanamaker
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty..."
Full 'Phyllis Mcginley' Quote
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Phyllis Mcginley
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"one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique...."
Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote
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Elizabeth Bowen
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"Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes."
Full 'Carl Sandberg' Quote
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Carl Sandberg
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"of anything other than a concept, an idea in people's minds...."
Full 'Thomas Vernon' Quote
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Thomas Vernon
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"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world..."
Full 'Sir Edward Elgar' Quote
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Sir Edward Elgar
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"My idea of a perfect world is for every- one to be happy and happy with..."
Full 'Britney Spears' Quote
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Britney Spears
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote
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Benjamin Disraeli
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"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone."
Full 'George Foreman' Quote
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George Foreman
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"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it..."
Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote
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Thomas Edison
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"Never have ideas about children -- and never have ideas for them."
Full 'D H Lawrence' Quote
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D H Lawrence
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"in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
Full 'F Scott Fitzgerald' Quote
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern..."
Full 'Ellen Glasgow' Quote
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Ellen Glasgow
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"happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's..."
Full 'Jim Henson' Quote
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Jim Henson
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"storyboard as our hopes, aspirations and ideas take shape. Sometimes others..."
Full 'Steve Pomfret' Quote
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Steve Pomfret
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"familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for...."
Full 'John Henry Newman' Quote
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John Henry Newman
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"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote
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Elizabeth Bowen
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"to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
Full 'Walter Bagehot' Quote
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Walter Bagehot
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"Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the..."
Full 'Jefferson Davis' Quote
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Jefferson Davis
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"country deliberately founded on a good idea."
Full 'John Gunther' Quote
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John Gunther
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"Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but..."
Full 'Amy Vanderbilt' Quote
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Amy Vanderbilt
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"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones"
Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote
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Ezra Pound
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"worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand..."
Full 'Maya Angelou' Quote
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Maya Angelou
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"Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held..."
Full 'Paul Engle' Quote
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Paul Engle
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"to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with..."
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Paul Engle
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"occurred to me not to include those types of ideas in songs...."
Full 'Steve Earle' Quote
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Steve Earle
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"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."
Full 'Paul Valery' Quote
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Paul Valery
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"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them."
Full 'Michael Levine' Quote
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Michael Levine
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"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same..."
Full 'Phil Donahue' Quote
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Phil Donahue
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"Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they..."
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Winston Churchill
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"I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering...."
Full 'Abraham Maslow' Quote
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Abraham Maslow
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"of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to"
Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote
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Samuel Johnson
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"Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end."
Full 'August Wilson' Quote
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August Wilson
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"warn of an upcoming earthquake, ... The idea could also explain the weird..."
Full 'Catherine Zandonella' Quote
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Catherine Zandonella
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"fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one."
Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote
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Samuel Johnson
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"nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an..."
Full 'Walter Benjamin' Quote
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Walter Benjamin
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"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
Full 'David Ogilvy' Quote
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David Ogilvy
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"Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully,..."
Full 'Norman Thomas' Quote
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Norman Thomas
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"between good and great is an inspired idea and perspiration on your shirt."
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Rev. Darrell W. Boswell
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"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old..."
Full 'John Maynard Keynes' Quote
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John Maynard Keynes
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"is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself..."
Full 'Emile M Cioran' Quote
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Emile M Cioran
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"greater the risk, usually the worse the idea."
Full 'Robert Heller' Quote
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Robert Heller
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"The idea of life is to give and receive."
Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote
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Dizzy Gillespie
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote
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Edward Abbey
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"The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous..."
Full 'Abbie Hoffman' Quote
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Abbie Hoffman
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"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights..."
Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote
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Ayn Rand
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"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Full 'Mark Twain' Quote
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Mark Twain
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"of free speech and the advancement of ideas that challenge the conventional..."
Full 'Herbert Marcuse' Quote
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Herbert Marcuse
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"most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work..."
Full 'Lin Yutang' Quote
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Lin Yutang
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"actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is..."
Full 'Cynthia Heimel' Quote
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Cynthia Heimel
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"The rational society subverts the idea of Reason."
Full 'Herbert Marcuse' Quote
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Herbert Marcuse
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"The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work..."
Full 'Judith Martin' Quote
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Judith Martin
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"intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the..."
Full 'F Scott Fitzgerald' Quote
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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"true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas."
Full 'Alfred Victor Vigny' Quote
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Alfred Victor Vigny
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"The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty..."
Full 'Woody Allen' Quote
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Woody Allen
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"Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged."
Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote
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Henry Ward Beecher
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"There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Full 'Everett Dirksen' Quote
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Everett Dirksen
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"the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come...."
Full 'Victor Hugo' Quote
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Victor Hugo
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"There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have..."
Full 'Demi Moore' Quote
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Demi Moore
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"Thinking about an idea will not get the book written. Writing it down is..."
Full 'Sue Grafton' Quote
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Sue Grafton
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"excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly..."
Full 'Claude Bernard' Quote
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Claude Bernard
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"the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and..."
Full 'Bruce Jenner' Quote
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Bruce Jenner
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"virtual environments, defined by our ideas."
Full 'Michael Crichton' Quote
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Michael Crichton
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"are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
Full 'Kurt Vonnegut' Quote
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Kurt Vonnegut
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"nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."
Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote
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Louis Aragon
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"We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very..."
Full 'Linda Ronstadt' Quote
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Linda Ronstadt
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"to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters...."
Full 'Alec Baldwin' Quote
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Alec Baldwin
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"are never taken by surprise, all your ideas scattered like leaves before a..."
Full 'Anne Perry' Quote
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Anne Perry
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"Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right..."
Full 'Diane Sawyer' Quote
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Diane Sawyer
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"cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most..."
Full 'Mozart' Quote
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Mozart
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"When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months,..."
Full 'Johnny Cash' Quote
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Johnny Cash
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"When I started, I had this idea that the films I did defined me, and that..."
Full 'Brad Pitt' Quote
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Brad Pitt
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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you"
Full 'Phylicia Rashad' Quote
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Phylicia Rashad
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"When you're in deep water it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut!"
Full 'Alfred E Newman' Quote
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Alfred E Newman
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"can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
Full 'Medgar Evers' Quote
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Medgar Evers
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"can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea."
Full 'Myrlie Evers' Quote
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Myrlie Evers
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"not put a rope around the neck of an idea; you can not put an idea up..."
Full 'Sean O'casey' Quote
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Sean O'casey
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"You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that a..."
Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote
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Paul Cezanne
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"You have no idea how much it costs to look this cheap"
Full 'Steven Tyler' Quote
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Steven Tyler
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"You think you know, but you have no idea, I feel you stare, but you dont..."
Full 'Unknown Source' Quote
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Unknown Source
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"- and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long...."
Full 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning' Quote
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Your ideas of love change. I mean, you thought you were in love when you..."
Full 'Brad Pitt' Quote
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Brad Pitt
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