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• I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

  Michael Eisner

  Taken, School, College

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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• My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

  Raf Simons

  Couple, Assistants, Next

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• The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

  Tony Grisoni

  Giving, Walks, Best Things

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• When it comes to sticking to your resolutions, research has shown that 'action-oriented' resolutions have a better chance of being upheld than 'idea-oriented.' For example, a resolution to lose weight is really only an idea with nothing actionable to do. However, sticking with that goal in mind, you could make the resolution action-oriented by saying 'get up 30 minutes earlier every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and do a 20-minute workout at home before work.' Now you have an actionable path on how to achieve your goal.

  Brett Hoebel

  Friday, Workout, Monday

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• The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, People, Risk

  "The next great Internet revolution is coming, AOL founder says" by Blake Snow, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2013.

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• One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

  Robert Smithson

  Erosion, Rivers, Brain

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

  Edgar Wright

  Done, Benefits, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

  Rory Bremner

  People, Impression, Recognise

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• I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

  Jean M. Auel

  Eye, Hair, People

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• From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

  Jean M. Auel

  Writing, Stories, Firsts

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• I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, Quality, Lasts

  "The Only Punk Left: Vivienne Westwood". Interview with Kathryn Flett, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Running, Fun, Thinking

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• All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

  Raymond Smullyan

  Children, Hate, Effort

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

  Kerry Washington

  Color, Community, Stories

  Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

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• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fall, People, Waiting

  "Keillor To Retire From Prairie Home In 2013" by wenn.com, March 18, 2011.

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• I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

  Yann Tiersen

  Writing, Playing Music, Want

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• Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

  Kevin Ashton

  Inspiration, Creative, Execution

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• A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.

  Cornelius Cardew

  Leaving, Trying, Sound

  Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

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• Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Opportunity, Way, Firsts

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

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• I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

  Ransom Riggs

  Abundance, Deficiency

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.184, Quirk Books

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• Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

  Linnea Sinclair

  Fear, Fear Me, Philip

  Linnea Sinclair (2005). “Gabriel's Ghost”, p.224, Spectra

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• 'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fear, Dark, Devil

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• Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at present), I think it is best to choose such a denomination as means nothing of itself and thus can give no rise to any erroneous ideas. In consequence of this, as I did in the case of Uranium, I shall borrow the name for this metallic substance from mythology, and in particular from the Titans, the first sons of the earth. I therefore call this metallic genus TITANIUM.

  Martin Heinrich Klaproth

  Mean, Son, Science

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• Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Two, Mind

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