Inception Quotes

• Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

  Mitt Romney

  Positive, Thinking, Should Have

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• Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

  Mike DeWine

  Compassion, Umpires, Justice

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• Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

  Frank Serpico

  Speaks Out, President, Speech

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• Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Finding The One, Hollywood, Stuff

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  Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Real, Vision

  Twitter post from May 15, 2010

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• A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Cities, Ideas, Mind

  "Finding The Summer Movies That Are (Well) Off The Beaten Path". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 31, 2010.

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• Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

  Ken Watanabe

  Regret, Men, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Saito". "Inception", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Littles, Darling

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• We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

  Lane Kirkland

  Leadership, Bitterness, Staff

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• The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Courage, Determination, Inspiration

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• If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Hurt, Return, Sometimes

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.320, University of Virginia Press

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• Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Country, Religious, Independent

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• There was never any more inception than there is now,
  Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfection, Heaven, Age

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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• This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams.

  Common

  Dream, Writing

  Song: Blue Sky, Album: The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011

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• Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Israel, Threat, Has Beens

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• The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

  Paul Celan

  Lonely, Loneliness, Poetry

  Paul Celan (2005). “Paul Celan: Selections”, p.164, Univ of California Press

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• I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

  Jasper Fforde

  Errors, Principles, Mankind

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• Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

  Jasper Fforde

  Men, Errors, Bureaucracy

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• I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

  John B. Larson

  Military, War, Iraq

  "Why I Support Murtha for Majority Leader" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2006.

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• If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

  Christopher Nolan

  Art, Ideas, Imagination

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.78, Insight Editions

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• ...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

  Liam Neeson

  Venice, American History, Contemporary

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• Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Following Christ, Practice

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• The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.

  John von Neumann

  Teaching, Math, Thinking

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.620, World Scientific

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• I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to feel at home in those characters. I wanted to feel like I could commit to them. And so much of improv is saying yes and committing, so I think that's where the improv came in. Even if I'm saying yes to the X across the room from me, or the tennis ball on a stick, I have to stay alive.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Home, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people - do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone's white. That's what we have to change.

  Idris Elba

  Successful, Thinking, White

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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