Wrong Ideas Quotes - Page 2

• I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dad, Awards, Ideas

  "Ed Begley Jr. on Blunt Talk, St. Elsewhere, and Spinal Tap". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2015.

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• Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.

  William Eggleston

  Mean, Play, Ideas

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Ideas, Inspire

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• The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Religious, Growing Up

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• We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Ideas, Substitutes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.105, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Path, Alluring

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• For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Ideas, Records, Cases

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1426, Dell

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• It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, People

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• Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Moving, Thinking

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• I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Thinking, Vacation

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• I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Ideas, Burgers, Use

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• Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't. You get the feeling that the result you have discovered is forever, because it's concrete. Other branches of mathematics are not so clear-cut. Functional analysis of infinite-dimensional spaces is never fully convincing; you don't get a feeling of having done an honest day's work. Don't get the wrong idea - combinatorics is not just putting balls into boxes. Counting finite sets can be a highbrow undertaking, with sophisticated techniques.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Cutting, Math, Ideas

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• It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

  John Hughlings Jackson

  Years, Ideas, Medicine

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• Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

  Tim Daly

  Ideas, Mowing, Digging

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

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• Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

  Carol Vorderman

  Ideas, People

  "Carol Vorderman: I'm single for the first time in my life - and I really like it!" by Julie McCaffrey, www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2011.

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• There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Ideas

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• I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.

  Craig Nicholls

  Hurt, Tired, Ideas

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• Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a crumpled magazine. How's this?" he asked, showing the ad to Charlotte. It says 'Crunchy.' 'Crunchy' would be a good word to write in your web." Just the wrong idea," replied Charlotte. "Couldn't be worse. We don't want Zuckerman to think Wilbur is crunchy. He might start thinking about crisp, crunchy bacon and tasty ham. That would put ideas into his head. We must advertise Wilbur's noble qualities, not his tastiness.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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