Ideal World Quotes

• People aren't always what you want them to be

  Libba Bray

  People, Want, What You Want

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

  Clay Aiken

  Children, Acceptance, People

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, p.240, Harper Collins

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• In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

  Gary Hamel

  Practice, Would Be, Add

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• I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fire, Would Be, World

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• If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.

  Tyler Blackburn

  World, Suits, Action

  Ocean Pleasant Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

  Philip K. Dick

  Effort, World, Cognition

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

  John Mearsheimer

  World, Would Be, States

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Doe, World

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• In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

  Frank Gehry

  World, Pressure, Should

  "Architect Frank Gehry talks LEED and the future of green building". "Need to Know" with Abigail Leonard, www.pbs.org. June 14, 2010.

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• In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

  Tom Colicchio

  School, Lunch, Would Be

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• The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

  Kevin Smith

  Long, Culture, World

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• In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

  Thomas Mars

  People, World, Forget

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

  Henry Ian Cusick

  World, Lost, Ideals

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• In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Media, World

  "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

  Kate Bush

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

  "50 Words For Snow : A Conversation With Kate Bush". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

  Aaron Tveit

  World, Want, Kind

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• I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

  Freya North

  World, Clinging, Wanted

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• I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person matters. I believe the ideal world is one in which every child is protected in law and welcomed to life. I understand there's great differences on this issue of abortion. But I believe reasonable people can come together and put good law in place that will help reduce the number of abortions.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Children, Believe

  Presidential debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. October 13, 2004.

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• A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Knowing Nothing, World

  "A Rare (and Amazing) 47-Minute Interview with David Lynch". www.movies.com. June 18, 2013.

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• [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Roots, Sublime

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• In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

  Hamish Linklater

  Jobs, Jealous, Would Be

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• I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

  David Yates

  Drama, World, Scripts

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

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• I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

  Claire Messud

  Believe, Writing, What Matters

  "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.

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