Idea Quotes

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Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the… — Jane Wiedlin
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them — Armand Assante
There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where people mess around… — Douglas Gresham
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put… — John Astin
I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. — Christopher Nolan
Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at… — Peter Jackson
You need more than an idea to run a business — Arlene Dickinson
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. — Shaun Cassidy
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that?… — Angela Davis
It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more. — J. J. Abrams
The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct… — Margot Adler
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture. — Isamu Noguchi
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse. — Shimon Peres
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst. — Wallace Stegner
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea, — Wallace Stegner
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other… — Wallace Stegner
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires.… — Terry Tempest Williams
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader… — Richard Adams
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what… — Louise Bourgeois
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought… — Barbara Jordan
What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;… — Salman Rushdie
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. — J M Coetzee
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. — Pat Metheny
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency… — Anthony Bourdain

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