Ideas Quotes - Page 33

• Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

  Amanda Palmer

  Dawn, Band, Crowdfunding

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• I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

  Amanda Palmer

  Teenager, Thinking, Rocks

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

  David Blaine

  Mcdonalds, Fasting, Isolation

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

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• Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

  Boy George

  Divorce, Gay, Thinking

  The London Evening Standard, February 20, 2006.

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• Ideas come and go, stories stay.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Stories, Black Swan, Comes And Goes

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.31, Random House

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• In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Awards, Rocks

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• It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Feelings, Mind

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.29

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• Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

  Dick Gephardt

  Giving, Needs, Purpose

  "Gephardt comes out fighting / Hard-hitting Democrat announces second bid for White House" by Adam Nagourney, www.sfgate.com. February 20, 2003.

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• Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say "star struck" as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.

  Mark Hoppus

  Jobs, Stars, Artist

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmo Girl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

  Mark Hoppus

  Band, Projects, Interest

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• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .

  John Keats

  Passion, Heart, Imagination

  1817 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov.

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• They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from and they have no idea where they're going. And if that's the case, how can we as the public trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, the permanent record of our lives?

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Records, Information

  www.wired.com.

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• Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.'

  George Saunders

  Hate, Voice, Mind

  "George Saunders: My desktop". Interview With Ben Johncock, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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• You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

  Bill Burr

  Years, Long, Stones

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• Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully
  as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Thinking, Frustrated

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.23, Anchor

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• I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Swans, Ugly Duckling

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I'm an outcast of the Japanese literary world'" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2014.

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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

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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• Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Life Changing, Lessons To Be Learned, Space

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• My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Accepting, Ready, Persons

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• It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Interest, Dies

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• An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

  Chuck Jones

  Character, Player, Keys

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• Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

  Max Stirner

  Spring, Crime, Fixed

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

  Noam Chomsky

  Imbeciles

  Interview with David Samuels, chomsky.info. November 12, 2010.

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• It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Done, Exciting, Better Than You

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.  The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair.  I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics.  I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.  But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Opportunity, Discovery

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