Ideas Quotes - Page 16

• I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

  Jason Lee

  Movie, Stars, Kids

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.

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• I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.

  Darrell Hammond

  Years, Two, Three

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• I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

  Barbara Amiel

  Morning, Style, Vancouver

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• Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

  Ron Paul

  Racism, Racist, Libertarian

  "Ron Paul '90s newsletters rant against blacks, gays". edition.cnn.com. January 11, 2008.

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• Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

  Drake

  Light, Lows, Get Low

  Song: Club Paradise, Album: You Welcome

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• I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

  Tom Felton

  Jeans, Hoodies, Doe

  "Tom Felton". www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009.

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• I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

  Lexa Doig

  Careers, Arguing, Lawyer

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• The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.

  Lexa Doig

  Running, Fun, Trying

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• What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Reality, Appreciate, Unattainable

  "'Fantasy Island's' Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88", www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2009.

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• I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

  Aaron Stanford

  Book, Men, Stories

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• The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

  David Pye

  Risk, Quality, Essentials

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• Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

  Adam McKay

  Insane, News, Steps

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• I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

  Father Damien

  Doctors, Skills, Giving

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• The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a superior position. When we help, we feel that we are one step ahead or one step higher than the ones that we are helping. But if we serve someone, then we offer our capacity with humility, on the strength of our loving concern and oneness. So let us use the proper term, 'service'.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mean, Humility, Oneness

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• Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Progress, Lasts

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• The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more likely that transformation will occur.

  Ken Wilber

  Exercise, Simple, Practice

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

  Joko Beck

  Hurt, Confused, Real

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• There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.

  Barry Green

  Reading, Expression, Play

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• Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Dream, Morning, Hate

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• After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Years, Hollywood, Comic Book

  "SDCC: Brian K. Vaughan is 'Living His Life 22 Pages at a Time'" by Casey Gilly, www.cbr.com. August 02, 2014.

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• [A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been evolved to fight the Nazis - were themselves very much in the Nazi ideal. The idea that you can solve problems through physical strength, by being stronger and more dominant and more powerful - that is fascism. I mean, that's it, that's the essence of fascism. I don't think the creators of the superheroes or the kids who were reading them at the time were the slightest bit aware of it.

  Michael Chabon

  Powerful, Reading, Kids

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• When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mean, Kids, Years

  "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". CNN-IBN interview, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, Years, Two

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