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• When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Two, Guy, Mind

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 6, 2001.

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• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Movie, Territory, Problem

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• I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Country, Thinking

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• And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Country, Texas

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• The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, People, President

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• This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

  Sean William Scott

  Opportunity, Guy, Together

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• One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

  Larry Wall

  Power, People, Rejection

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• When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  Vernor Vinge

  Writing, Science, Fiction

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• Science fiction still is an idea genre.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Fiction, Genre

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• I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Hate, Writing

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• I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

  Lennart Nilsson

  Dream, Technology, Trying

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• I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

  Nick Rhodes

  Trust, Letting Go, People

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• And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

  Ernst Toller

  Truth, Real, Simple

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. There's just a certain amount of scope needed to create a complex puzzle space and to develop a real story. At least with my brain, there is.

  Tim Schafer

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  "Press Start: Double Fine kickstarter lacks cash, Japan to get Xbox One in 2014, and more" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

  James Patterson

  Boys, Playing Games, Kind

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• Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

  Judith Rodin

  Children, Simple, Play

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• I just don't trust any of it. Every time I read something about how there's been another ridiculous climb of the Dow Jones, there's a part of me that goes, “This can't be good.” None of this is real money. You know what I mean? It's not like there's actually more of anything. It's just ideas. When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.

  Louis C. K.

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Louis C.K.: 'Starvation Can Be Character Building'". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Country, Ice Cream

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

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• I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Thinking, Style, Actresses

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• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  Tammy Bruce

  Men, Goal, Feminist

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.80, Crown Forum

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• Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Growing, Want

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• I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

  Neville Marriner

  People, New Ideas

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• My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

  Edward Carpenter

  Years, Shapes, Lacking

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

  Adrian Lyne

  Use, Forget, Danger

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• Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Running, Crazy, Doubt

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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