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I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.
Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.
We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.
No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.
It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.
Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.
I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.
The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.
An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.
If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I've had a lot of random things not work out that people don't know about.
To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'
The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.
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.
Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.
I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.
If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.