"We are the prisoners of ideas." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Lance Armstrong
• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium… — 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… — Chinua Achebe

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