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Related The president's idea was dead on arrival. Now it is well beyond rigor mortis. ROBERT SCHAEFFER When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT ARTHUR MILLER If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea. M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN ROXANE GAY MIKE MYERS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING ERIC RIES PETER ZUMTHOR SAM ALTMAN LAUREN MYRACLE CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. ... RONALDINHO True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other p... LEILA JANAH Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM MICHAEL GRANT BORIS YELTSIN Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an ... BRIAN SCHMIDT VANNA BONTA SHAILENE WOODLEY C. JOYBELL C. One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not... NAOMI KLEIN CHRIS SACCA JANEANE GAROFALO TOM STOPPARD I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is i... HOZIER PAT CONROY I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone o... LAURA LINNEY ROBIN WILLIAMS JAMES MCNERNEY MARY ELLEN CHASE Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical id... HELMUT JAHN ELLIE GOULDING JEFFREY FRY The idea is you're not preaching about diversity. You're just being diverse. MITCHELL KRIEGMAN JEFF GOODELL God is the giver of ideas. When He gives you an idea, it is not just about you. There is an audience... KIM BOOHER VIVEK WADHWA A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When I first saw the idea of a cooking school for kids, I thought it was a pretty neat idea. I like ... ANNA LEVIEN RODNEY ATKINS It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not... MADELINE ZIMA BOBBY JINDAL The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team. MIKE KRZYZEWSKI EDWARD ZWICK This may be the first budget in history that wasn't just dead on arrival -- it was dead before arriv... TOM DASCHLE SAM SHEPARD JAMAIS CASCIO FRANCIS SPUFFORD Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and... CYNTHIA KENYON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES THEODORE DALRYMPLE Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that art... GLEN HANSARD I think, sometimes with fans, what a lot of studios miss is it's just the gesture: it's the ... DAVE FILONI NAVEEN JAIN SIA To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what,... DAVID LLOYD BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... MIKE MYERS Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in... RANDY NEWMAN AASIF MANDVI A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I mig... CHARLES POLLOCK BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY THERESA MAY The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesqu... RON WYDEN JIM HUNT This is a pretty good team and they have a good idea about how to play. Also, when you have a guy li... BERNIE WALTER I go about composing like a factory worker. I punch in. I believe it's written somewhere "Steve Swal... STEVE SWALLOW KELLY MCGILLIS ROBERT RODRIGUEZ IVANKA TRUMP And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and... MINORU YAMASAKI That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and... PARMINDER NAGRA There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it repr... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD EVAN DAVIS I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find wh... CECILY BROWN MATISYAHU ADAM SAVAGE ARJUN RAMPAL ANON. GEORGE ALLEN CHRIS HADFIELD HENRY FORD CHARLES M. SCHULZ REBECCA HALL ANNE WOJCICKI ROBERT HERJAVEC Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art schoo... CAIO FONSECA MARCO RUBIO Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of peopl... SAM HEUGHAN I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just th... BRIAN WILSON JERRY GARCIA ISAAC ASIMOV I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has th... TROY CARTER
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BRAD BLANK Chris (Chambers) is a good receiver, just like (New England's top wide receiver) Deion Branch. David... BRAD BLANK No matter how much money is on the table, he'll visit a place and get a feel for the team, the coach... BRAD BLANK About half the league would like him to visit. But it's his turn to start deciding where he wants to... BRAD BLANK About half the league would like him to visit, BRAD BLANK It is the most important (contract). First of all, it really depends on what the player has done, bu... BRAD BLANK I haven't heard from them. They know my phone number. Maybe they decided not to pursue them. BRAD BLANK If everything works out though, [the deal] could be for much longer by the end of the year. BRAD BLANK ARTHUR BLANK ARTHUR BLANK ARTHUR BLANK Tonight's win proves we can overcome a bad half. It proves that we can play with anyone. 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PAUL BLANK Rather than address the fundamental reasons Wal-Mart is hurting America, Wal-Mart has decided to lau... PAUL BLANK Today, Wal-Mart executive after Wal-Mart executive talked about the responsibility PAUL BLANK The question for Wal-Mart should be when will Wal-Mart demand an investigation of itself? PAUL BLANK Ambassador Young is now in a unique position to reach out to Wal-Mart and CEO Lee Scott and urge the... PAUL BLANK ARTHUR BLANK You enter the same way, one of four points. From there, everything's different. DAVE BLANK You are talking about what 15 to 20 hotels can do for the tournament, not just the ones downtown. Yo... DAVE BLANK The opportunity to return to the Carolina region was one that interested me. My decision was based l... DAVE BLANK We are going to have to be creative in showing the NCAA how badly we would like to have this tournam... DAVE BLANK The Valley has helped schools host the tournament at every level, including the Final Four in St. Lo... 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It is a lie. 
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms.... 
There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret... 
The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste les... 
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material... 
There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that li... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... 
A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about 
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. 
Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival. 
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, p... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by w... 
Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's no... 
What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of ... 
My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. ... 
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least t... 
'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a fam... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth'... 
Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selli... 
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears ... 
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. P... 
In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Bo... 
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we'r... 
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel. 
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's... 
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful ... 
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of w... 
My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking ... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in f... 
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, rom... 
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you,... 
Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a... 
I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain auto... 
Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... 
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that... 
Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach. 
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for grant... 
What is it to keep kosher? Is it eating kosher potato chips? Kosher is a bigger idea. I think it'... 
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don'... 
I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desira... 
The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound. 
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it'... 
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused... 
An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an o... 
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. 
I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id... 
The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that i... 
The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It&... 
When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those... 
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every... 
A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written 
Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business mo... 
Visionary CEOs are not 'just' great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and succes... 
Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless ... 
I got a lot of winks around the room. What's really odd is, you walk around and you would have thoug... 
We want to begin the process of searching for a new head coach in a thorough and honest manner, 
I think a certain amount of air would come out, 
It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play. 
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. 
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those specie... 
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. 
When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ... 
Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk.... 
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. 
There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris... 
Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?&#... 
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night ... 
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't w... 
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. 
I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist ... 
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and Novembe... 
In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue befo... 
I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and...