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• Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

  William Vogt

  Philosophy, Journey, Roots

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• I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Beauty, Believe, Liberty

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• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  Patrick Stewart

  Character, Interesting, Feelings

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• Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

  Morley Safer

  Confidence, Sleep, People

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• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Thinking, Hands

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• My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

  Sarah Zettel

  Morning, Night, Sour Milk

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• There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

  Douglas Hurd

  Past, Understanding, Judgement

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• The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Leadership, Running, House

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You get ideas from other people all the time.

  Jared Harris

  People

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• We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

  Dean Koontz

  True Evil, Literature, World

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• The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.

  Steve Burns

  Children, Watches, Shows

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