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Ideas Quotes by Richard Hofstadter
- The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to…
- The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in…
- If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe