Great Idea Quotes - Page 3

• Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Ideas, People, Creepy

  "Q&A: Mike Birbiglia on the Subway, Fans & Comedy About Love". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. November 26, 2013.

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• I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

  Paula Abdul

  Thinking, Ideas, Duets

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• A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.

  Eboo Patel

  Loyalty, Religious, Reality

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• In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

  Ashton Kutcher

  Believe, Character, Ideas

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• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the medical scientists. Studying model species is a great idea, but we need to combine that with biodiversity studies and have those properly supported because of the contribution they can make to conservation biology, to agrobiology, to the attainment of a sustainable world.

  E. O. Wilson

  World, Today, Students

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

  Jose Marti

  Ideas, Giving, Risk

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Responsibility, Men

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• The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

  Michael Moore

  Ideas, Cinema, Dangerous

  "'Capitalism is evil ... you have to eliminate it'". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

  Laurie Davidson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Thinking

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• My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

  Josh Turner

  Night, Ideas, Would Be

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• Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Practice, Ideas, Theory

  "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.

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• If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

  Trey Parker

  Stupid, Ideas, Cool Movie

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Years, Ideas

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• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Sorrow is the great idealizer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Grief, Sorrow

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• I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

  Jena Malone

  Children, Writing, Class

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• Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

  Alan Alda

  Country, Moving, Ideas

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

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• The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

  Michael Moore

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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• You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

  Donald Trump

  Motivation, Ideas, Enthusiasm

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• Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

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• Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Blood, Ideas, Lunch

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• You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ideas, Differences, Rewards

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1997.

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• I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.

  Jim Benton

  Sorry, Color, Ideas

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.56, Scholastic

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