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• News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, News, Bees

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.393, Penguin

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• Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .

  Ernest Renan

  Dream, Jesus, Ideas

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• I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

  Christopher Reeve

  Mean, Ideas, Starting

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• Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Weed, Flower, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Play, Ideas, Knowing

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• Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Stress, Years, Ideas

  "Jennifer Aniston says she won't let tabloids steal her joy". "Associated Press" Interview, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2014.

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• The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.

  Will Cuppy

  Men, Ideas, Stories

  "The Pike". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Mean, Ideas, Receiving

  H.P. Lovecraft (2016). “Lovecraft's Works”, p.616, Xist Publishing

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• No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government, Ideas, Mind

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick, Realist" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. December 08, 2006.

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• First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

  Steve Young

  Football, Thinking, Games

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• My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.

  Steve Young

  Football, Ideas, Goal

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• There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Cocky, Men, Play

  "Hot Topic: John Gallagher Jr." by Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2012.

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• We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Ideas, Long

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• The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, Giving, Interesting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

  Ethan Hawke

  Reality, Ideas, Would Be

  "The Payoff for Ethan Hawke" by Dana Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. April 14, 2002.

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• A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Order, Practice, Ideas

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• People used to believe their life--or at least their life as a performer--was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I'm barely getting that under control now.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Children, War, Ideas

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out

  Thom Yorke

  Talking, Ideas, Body

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• The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Ideas, Audience

  "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, 1992.

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• Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist comes up with something that they have spotted in the universe that we have no idea exists today.

  George Noory

  Years, Ideas, Today

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• Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

  David Boreanaz

  Ideas, Voice, Water

  "David Boreanaz - Interviewed on Location for Carpe Noctem in Los Angels". BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 22, 2001.

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• I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

  Bern Will Brown

  Change, Ideas

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• I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

  Wade Guyton

  Money, Art, New York

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• The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

  Malcolm Morley

  Ideas, Landscape, Lost

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