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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wisdom, Real, Years

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• An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Imagination

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113

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• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Numbers, Democracy, Genius

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

  Scott Berkun

  Fun, Together, World

  Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

  Ville Valo

  No Idea, Load

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• When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Flames, Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol

  "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company". Book by James R. Mellow, 1974.

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• Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily carnivorous mammal with retractible claws, a distinctive sonic output, etc.? I'll bet not. You probably show the kid a lot of different cats, saying 'kitty' each time, until it gets the idea. To put it more generally, generalizations are best made by abstraction from experience.

  Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

  Children, Cat, Kids

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• If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Stills, Ifs

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• The idea comes before the logical argument.

  Gerald Abrahams

  Logical Arguments, Chess, Argument

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

  Lewis Mumford

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

  Robert Crumb

  Love You, Exercise, Trying

  "R. Crumb Speaks". Interview with Robert Hughes, content.time.com. April 29, 2005.

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• England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.

  John Garfield

  Sexy, Mean, Intelligent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

  Carol Burnett

  Moving, Writing, Computer

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• For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Mean, Son

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• I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Voice, Speaking Spanish

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• Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Creative, Copying, Different

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2013

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• I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.

  Debi Mazar

  Girl, Kids, Vintage

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• The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

  Keith Richards

  Killing, Killing Yourself, Retiring

  FaceBook post by Keith Richards from Sep 21, 2010

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• I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

  Beth Broderick

  New Year, Growing Up, Home

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

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• Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Trying Different Things, Perspective, Doe

  "Q&A: Liam Hemsworth on The Hunger Games and Losing Weight for His Role". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. November 8, 2011.

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• The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Art, White, Long

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• People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

  David Lynch

  Girl, Falling In Love, Home

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

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