Brilliant Ideas Quotes - Page 9

• I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Crafts, Excellent

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• I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mean, Dancing, Intimidating

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

  Gene Tierney

  Men, Emotional, Directors

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• I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

  Horace Walpole

  Political, Politics, Way

  Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.313

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• My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

  Andy Warhol

  Photography, Artist, Ideas

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Ideas, Fields

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• It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, Brilliant, Muse

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• Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

  Kathy Reichs

  Ideas, Brilliant, Felony

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.125, Penguin

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• that was the plan? part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved. it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.

  Michele Jaffe

  Cute, Dog, Believe

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• Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Fire, Ideas

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• I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

  David Ginola

  Soccer, Beach, Fun

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• I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

  Chuck Jones

  Men, Ideas, Wells

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  Lactantius

  Teacher, Philosopher, Speak

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.19, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Past, Errors, Ideas

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.6, Crown Business

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• When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

  Constance Baker Motley

  Ideas, Lawyer, Wanted

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Glasses, Office, Legends

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• I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

  Clement Freud

  Men, Thinking, Police

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• If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Play, Ideas

  "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Ideas, Vietnam, Gis

  "The Search for Hanoi Hannah". Interview with Don North, www.psywarrior.com.

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• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

  Ivor Novello

  Girl, Feelings, Acting

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• A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

  Gordon Waller

  Ideas, Melody, Good Ideas

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• Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

  Sarah Zettel

  Brilliant, Butlers, Courses

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• A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Leadership, Men, Ideas

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn”, p.156, Macmillan

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• All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Looks, Done

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