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• Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

  Chris Hardwick

  Writing, Ideas, Laughing

  "Crafting a Joke: The Arc of an Act" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fun, Hockey, Ideas

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• When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.

  Tobey Maguire

  Believe, Ideas, Saws

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• When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.

  Dylan Moran

  Teacher, Latin, Eye

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• You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

  Rodney Atkins

  Honesty, Artist, Who I Am

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• Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

  Isabel Allende

  Ideas, Information, Blogging

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than historical concerns. It is due to the simple fact that Paul had no idea who the living Jesus was, nor did he care.

  Reza Aslan

  Jesus, Simple, Ideas

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• I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew about scales, but I didn't think about chords. I was fortunate in that he lived right around the corner so I'd be at his house almost every day and he showed me about playing melodies over chords. After about three years, I could play some gigs. I worked with drummer Roy Brooks and other guys my age at that time, like trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer. Some of the older guys were Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes

  Charles McPherson

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

  Henry Rollins

  Ideas, America, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that, I have no idea what they do.

  Laurie Foos

  Ideas, Grace, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

  Ben Stein

  Country, Atheist, Ideas

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

  Ben Stein

  Ideas, Doubt, Rumor

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.

  Sergio Aguero

  Football, Team, Player

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, Listening, Audience

  "Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest - for two minutes'" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2010.

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• I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

  Sylvain Tesson

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings ... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Cutting, Ideas

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.97, Shambhala Publications

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• The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

  Diablo Cody

  Movie, Writing, Thinking

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• I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

  Rachel Kadish

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Army, Ideas

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.76, Vanderbilt University Press

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• You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  "New Again: Roy Lichtenstein". Interview with David Bowie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2012.

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• After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it’ll flop. And that’s when I really take a hard look at myself and say: "Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it’s talking about."

  Aziz Ansari

  Night, Talking, Ideas

  "Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Writing, Ideas, Right Now

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• I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

  Miranda Richardson

  Ideas, Would Be, Persona

  "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview with James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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