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• I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Simple, Ideas

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• For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It's just there.

  Sandra Brown

  Book, Character, Ideas

  "Sandra Brown, author of 'Deadline'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 27, 2013.

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• In an interview last night, Rick Perry criticized Mitt Romney for flip-flopping on the issues. Romney said that Perry has no idea what he's talking about. Then he added, 'But he does know what he's talking about.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Night, Talking, Ideas

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• Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

  Jay Leno

  Father, Smart, Believe

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• Even Arnold's adviser says he was shocked by his decision to run. I mean, his people were backstage that night and they had no idea. He totally fooled them. Who knew Arnold was that good of an actor? If he had done that in a movie, he'd have an Academy Award by now.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Mean, Night

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• I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad.  As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour.  Germany does not want war of any kind.  Germany wants real and abiding peace.

  Rudolf Hess

  Military, Real, War

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• We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Animal, Ideas

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• I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

  Shelley Hennig

  Ideas, Wanted

  "When I Was 17: Shelley Hennig". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Children, Ideas, Icons

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• The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Sex, Boys

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• People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Ideas, People

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• We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Believe, Hard Work, Past

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Merit, Different

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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• I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Cat, Ideas

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.

  Edward Snowden

  Team, Government, Nsa

  "Snowden at SXSW: 'The Constitution was being violated on a massive scale'". www.rt.com. March 10, 2014.

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• Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

  Cory Doctorow

  Ideas, People, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.137, Booklassic

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• My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Shadow Of Death, Ideas, May

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• When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

  Julia Serano

  Ideas, Decision, Males

  Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.50, Seal Press

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• If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

  Marisol Nichols

  Ideas, Dutch, Speak

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

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• Like an hourglass with a certain number of grains of sand within it, God has appointed your life to last only a certain number of days, and you have absolutely no idea how many there are.... In God's presence, consider: I have no idea when my life will end. All I know is that death will come for me eventually. Am I doing anything to prepare for the real possibility that God may call me, sooner rather than later? If he called me into eternity today, would I be ready?

  Patrick Madrid

  Real, Ideas, Numbers

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• People kept asking, Whats your market? Ive got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.

  Graeme Base

  Kids, Years, Ideas

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• As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Science, Men

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Character, Writing, Ideas

  Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.

  Bruce Willis

  Fun, Ideas, Canada

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• I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, "I don't know, guys! Just wait." That's what I'm doing!

  Veronica Roth

  Ideas, Waiting, Guy

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