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Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.
- Debra Fischer
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The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
- Oliver Ellsworth
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When you're a choreographer and you put so much into a routine that's emotionally driven, those are like my ideas and my little babies that I have here and then I put them out there and they're there to be judged and looked at. When it's all over, it's just such a relief.
- Derek Hough
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I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.
- Benjamin Millepied
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We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan for us to follow. But when it came to each scene, we and the gagmen would work out ideas.
- Stan Laurel
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Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
- Jeff Koons
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Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don't. But I like the result... I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it's very hard to get something done correctly, but then the idea flashes through of how to fix it. And I get encouraged. And other ideas flow.
- Hilary Hahn
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Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.
- Jason Whitlock
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Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
- Zakk Wylde
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A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
- Jim Lehrer
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I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.
- Brian Lee
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In general, the more entrepreneurs we have, the better off we will be because the economy is driven by small businesses and creative ideas... I'm really excited about what the future holds for women entrepreneurship and to be a small part of that by helping Kim Kardashian and Jessica Alba start their businesses.
- Brian Lee
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Most of us talk ourselves out of our own ideas, because we're our own worst enemy.
- Kandi Burruss
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Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
- Washed Out
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I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients.
- Alain Ducasse
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When someone on screen portrays a character that behaves in a way you don't expect, you're subverting ideas. So if there's a Venn diagram between why people are drawn to the characters I play, it may be that. But I'd like to think that the craft of acting and the choices I make as an actor are drawing people on their own merits.
- Natasha Rothwell
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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
- Theodore Sturgeon
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I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
- Taylor Wilson
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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
- Evan Hunter
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The painful part of being a new writer on 'ER' is that you come on with all these great ideas, and you find out we've already done them.
- David Zabel
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I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.
- Alexa Chung
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We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.
- Ron D. Burton
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Sometimes I just need somebody to tell me a bunch of ideas I don't like, so that I can figure out what it is I actually want.
- Phoebe Bridgers
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I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
- Al Yankovic
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It's ironic that socialism and similar left-wing ideas appeal to people who fashion themselves as 'anti-establishment,' when you can't have socialism without political repression.
- Dan Bongino
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Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone's ideas get contributed to it.
- Lee Ranaldo
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It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.
- Limmy
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'Sweet Summer Day' was inspired by wanting to write the perfect summer song! Both Chaeyoung and myself had ideas for lyrics, and the song formed naturally!
- Jeongyeon
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When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.
- Miguel
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The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so many different ideas, but they need to understand what the musician wants.
- Hiro Murai
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Video is universal and allows people around the world to communicate and exchange ideas.
- Chad Hurley
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Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.
- George MacKay
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
- Karlie Kloss
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I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
- Suzy Bogguss
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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
- Stan Getz
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I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.
- Martin Kippenberger
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A good artist has less time than ideas.
- Martin Kippenberger
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I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
- Janos Kadar
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All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
- Joel Sternfeld
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I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.
- Glen A. Larson
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The Kingsway Music Library was sort of a byproduct of all the creation I was doing. As creators, we kind of just create blindly sometimes and I couldn't physically see every idea through, so I created this ecosystem where I made the ideas available to people to download, to sample and to put their own twist on it.
- Frank Dukes
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
- Aaron D. O'Connell
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I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
- Helmut Newton
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We thought Raffie Ritchie sounded really cute when shortened. His older brother Rocco helped choose the name - we were throwing ideas out there as a family, and it stuck from early on.
- Jacqui Ainsley
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I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
- Lori Greiner
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Each and every head coach has their own ideas and philosophy. This club had a clear picture of what I would bring, and I was aware of what Norwich City means. I decided to sign here because I'm fully convinced this club is where I want to be.
- Daniel Farke
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Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
- Andrew Lo
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No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.
- James Costos
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The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
- Jean Paul Gaultier
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Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
- Edwin Markham
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I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way, writing notes and coming up with different ideas for two to three hours between 11 P.M. and 1 A.M. or 2 A.M.
- Rande Gerber
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I'm into hiring smart guys; I'm into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.
- Sean McDermott
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Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.
- Anita Elberse
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The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
- James Collins
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The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
- Bong Joon-ho
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The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new ideas.
- Henry Mancini
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
- Zahi Hawass
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I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
- Neville Marriner
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When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.
- Joe Satriani
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I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.
- Robin S. Sharma
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Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
- Roy H. Williams
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Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.
- Matisyahu
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
- Fidel Castro
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To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
- Mary Lynn Rajskub
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Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
- Lakeith Stanfield
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Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
- Terry Eagleton
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I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
- Yayoi Kusama
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I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.
- Meg Wolitzer
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
- Hans Zimmer
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
- Zack Snyder
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Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.
- Philip Emeagwali
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The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.
- Eric Kandel
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We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.
- Terry Gilliam
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As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.
- Gwendoline Christie
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I am very impulsive when it comes to experimenting with my looks and love playing with ideas by involving people from all walks of life.
- Ali Fazal
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I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They're conscious of the fact that people can - even from mobile phones - begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs... so they're a lot more hesitant to play them.
- Paolo Nutini
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Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
- Lauren Myracle
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There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians - just the kind of terminology that might make it easier to describe your ideas to the other guys in your band.
- Paul Gilbert
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We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.
- Alexis Wright
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
- George Berkeley
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
- George Berkeley
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If we ever have a problem, it's not comin' up with ideas. It's stoppin' us.
- Dusty Hill
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All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
- Michael Moritz
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You got to be able to reinvent yourself and come up with new ideas because everybody is going to try to copy, which is what you want. You want people to start saying what you say.
- Gunna
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I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas.
- Svetlana Alexievich
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
- Sam Claflin
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You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.
- Judd Gregg
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Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
- James Redfield
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
- Lasse Hallstrom
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I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
- Lou Gramm
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You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
- Lou Gramm
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My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.
- Paul Sabatier
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
- Dan Colen
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
- James Cameron
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That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else. I think of them with a different persona in mind; it's just a subconscious way of not being bound by what you think you are as an artist.
- Kevin Parker
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
- James Harvey Robinson
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I have these ideas that people go 'Oh, that's cool. I'd pay to see it, but I'm not gonna give you $25 million.'
- Mark Romanek
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
- Alain de Botton
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