No Idea Quotes - Page 38

• Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

  Wes Anderson

  Ideas, Different, Kind

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

  Nelson Mandela

  Teacher, School, Names

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• I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

  Kim Wilde

  Husband, Business, Ideas

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• That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet.

  LeBron James

  Crazy, Ideas, Saws

  "LeBron James clarifies comments" by Michael Wallace, www.espn.com. December 29, 2010.

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• The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

  Moshe Dayan

  Ideas, Hands, Gaza Strip

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• The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Ideas, Degrees, Limits

  "The Physiology of Taste".

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• [It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Reading, Happy Life

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise. They say, you've got to face fear to get over it. And all they do is desensitize themselves to the point that they get themselves into situations where they have no idea what's going on, and the end of them comes rather abruptly... And then everyone calls them brave.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving Forward, Ideas, People

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• A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

  Sherman Alexie

  Garden, Ideas, Eden

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• Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about.

  Dawn Abraham

  Inspirational, Life, Lost Love

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• There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

  Jon Cryer

  Bullying, Ignorance, Hair

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• I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

  T. J. Stiles

  Book, Years, Ideas

  "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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• No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Ideas, Flying

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• I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Ideas, Guy

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• I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

  Judy Collins

  Coffee, Passion, Ideas

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• No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Dog, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

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• I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

  Winston Churchill

  Play, Ideas, Dwelling

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• [The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.

  Keira Knightley

  Ideas, Yesterday, People

  "Keira Knightley Dismisses Weight Criticism" by Katie Pisa, Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. July 4, 2006.

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• I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Regret, Ideas, Domestic Violence

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• I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Ideas

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• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

  Rex Stout

  Ideas, Depth, Shallow

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• We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

  Rob Halford

  Thinking, Guitar, Ideas

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• I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Ineffable, Used

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• We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

  Tony Judt

  Ideas, Cost, Knows

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin

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• The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

  Lewis Black

  Party, Ideas, Two

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