Interesting Ideas Quotes

• It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Reality, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Writing, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: girdblog.com

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• That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would've been really great had it continued. I know Brannon Braga, who was running the show at the time, had a lot of really interesting ideas for what was going to happen the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons, and they had it really planned out what was going to go on. But CBS just decided to pull the plug on it.

  Brent Spiner

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.

  Robert Barry

  Wall, Space, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Ideas, People

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman. Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Los Alamos from Below", p. 132, 1985.

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• Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images.

  Christopher Nolan

  Reading, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Past, Ideas

  Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough”, p.560

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• The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

  Joel Silver

  Ideas, People, Interesting

  "Producer Joel Silver on Splice, Logan’s Run, Swamp Thing, the Apparation, Project-x, Unknown White Male". Press Day Interview, collider.com. May 22, 2010.

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• It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

  Charlie Rose

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Team, Cat, Games

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• The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

  Richard Hawley

  Night, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Ideas, Interesting, Would Be

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• I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

  Ted Alexandro

  Talking, Ideas, Interesting

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

  Cory Doctorow

  Creativity, Ideas, Differences

  Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

  Bill Drayton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Ideas, Interesting, Momentum

  "The secret of my excess". Interview with Michael Kimmelman, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2000.

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• I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

  Ryan Gosling

  Suicide, Fun, Thinking

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• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Business, Technology

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Interesting, Elysium

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

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• Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Dad, Ideas

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• The only interesting ideas are heresies

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, Interesting, Heresy

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.440, Macmillan

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• A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Ideas, Interesting

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