Brilliant Ideas Quotes - Page 4

• Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

  Henry Winkler

  Character, Play, Goofy

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• I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Ideas

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• The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Simple, Ideas, White

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• I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Ideas, Brilliant, Mines

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2011.

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• A Good artist has less time than ideas.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Ideas, Artist

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• Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

  Evan Esar

  Zoos, Carpe Diem, Study

  "Esar's Comic Dictionary". Book by Evan Esar, 1943.

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• My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

  Tony Visconti

  Father, School, College

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• It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Art, Fate, Long

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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• Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Shepherds, Dinner, Excellent

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• The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Dull, Succeed, Brilliant

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• All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Blessed, Writing, Creativity

  "Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, 1980.

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• Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Cheer, Men

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• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  Larry Flynt

  Ideas, People, Religion

  "Larry Flynt: What I've Learned" by john H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• ...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Ideas, Numbers, Quality

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• Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hangover, Drinking, Ideas

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• Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

  Brendan Fraser

  Men, Intelligent, Attention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

  Pat Boone

  Ideas, People, Young

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• There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down

  Luke Wilson

  Party, Ideas, Long

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• The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

  Alan Hansen

  Team, Needs, World

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• You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

  Robert Collier

  Successful, Ideas, Achievement

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.184, Penguin

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• There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

  Michael Bolton

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  Ted Koppel

  Npr, Years, Ideas

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• Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Fighting, Iodine, Firsts

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Majority, Noble

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Persistence, Ideas

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