I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that.… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. .… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in… — Robert Faurisson Copy Share Image
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I basically have two ways I start writing. Either I'll start with something about myself, or something that happened to me that… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that… — David First Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“Wild ideas popped up again in my head. What if I quietly went over and cut off the mooring ropes on one… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for… — Kirk Gibson Copy Share Image
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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