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I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
As soon as it's behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies:… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Who are your heroes? Why do you look up to them? Why do we respect those who live and think for themselves… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
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“The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.” — Lyle W. Dorsett Copy Share Image
We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking… — Lamar Hunt Copy Share Image
Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
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Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it.… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
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