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Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.
The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.
Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?
There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.
There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.
It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.
I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.
The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.
I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.
I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.
And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.
My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.
... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.
The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.
I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.
What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.