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• Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Interrogation Techniques, Faces, Window

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• And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, Player, Giving

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• Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.

  Leslie Ford

  Bystanders, Hands, Ducks

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• He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.

  Neil Strauss

  Thinking, Mind, Technique

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.117, Canongate Books

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• Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Philosophy, Garden

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• Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

  David Nicholls

  Skills, Giving, Technique

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.83, Villard

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• Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

  John Cage

  Hunting, Mushrooms, Goal

  John Cage (2012). “El libro de las setas”, p.56, Univ de Castilla La Mancha

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• I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Art, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

  William Arthur Ward

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Profound

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the West. The dress-making business has become a regular science. What colour of dress will suit with the complexion of the girl and the colour of her hair, what special feature of her body should be disguised, and what displayed to the best advantage-these and many other like important points, the dressmakers have seriously to consider. Again, the dress that ladies of very high position wear, others have to wear also, otherwise they lose their caste! This is FASHION.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Fashion, Business

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• We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

  Li Ka-shing

  Age, World, Belief

  Bloomberg Markets Interview, www.lksf.org. December 22, 2002.

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• A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

  Barbara Walters

  Ice Cream, Heaven, Hot

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• I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Sleep, Ice Cream

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.136, Penguin

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• Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Motivation, People

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• I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

  Carrie Snow

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Important, Want, Abstract

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• Progress is often just a good idea away.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Progress, Good Ideas

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• That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment. ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters.... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged?

  Jean Sylvain Bailly

  Science, Race, Air

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• Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Sports, Jobs, Winning

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• As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Self, Long

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• You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

  Jack Vance

  Real, Mean, Civilization

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• In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Socialist Countries

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Dark, Doors

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.3, Delta

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• Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?

  George Q. Cannon

  Angel, Names, Heaven

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• I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

  Gale Sayers

  Leadership, Sports, Thinking

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