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Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.
When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.
You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective
What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.
... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.
India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.
This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.
Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.
Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.
My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.
Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.
I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.
t's not that I'm particularly shy but I just don't like the idea of publicising myself as a 'celebrity'.