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You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.
Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.
Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.
I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.
When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.
I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!
Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.
I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.
That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.
There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.
To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.
However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.
My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood.
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.
What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.
The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.
I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.
I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.