When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
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JEREMY CORBYN The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creatin... PAT SAJAK I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people ex... ANNE SWEENEY This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the ... MICHEL AOUN Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't underst... ALAN SUGAR Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so comp... GEORGE LUCAS HEPA filter size is important because the generally recommended maximum airflow through a HEPA filte... BRAD MILLER I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one el... K'NAAN They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their... EDWARD LEAR If you blow through a straw and pinch one end, what happens? ... If the filter is clogged, the burne... ERIC MILLER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I'm like, 'How did this happen?' I'v... LILLY SINGH Our goal is that they will become interested in political life. We need Muslim politicians to unders... BASIM ELKARRA I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political langu... TAKI THEODORACOPULOS In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of ne... ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Politics is where the nature of man is shown and where a man's instincts are know. The ideas and the... C. LIDE SANGTAM I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons... BARBARA KRUGER The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creatin... PAT SAJAK In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was ... STEVEN PINKER Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget e... GILLIAN JACOBS New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it... ARTHUR C. CLARKE Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the... HUGH ROSS The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe the... CARRIE MAE WEEMS From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are y... BRAD THOR I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled ... JARVIS COCKER Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no ... ALAN SIEGEL It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literatur... JOSHUA COHEN Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and t... TERRY PRATCHETT I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which... GRETCHEN RUBIN Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through c... THALIA Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate insid... JAMEEL JAFFER The army will not get involved in the political conflict. Political troubles should be resolved by p... GEN. SONDHI BOONYARATKALIN The army will not get involved in the political conflict. Political troubles should be resolved by p... GENERAL SONTHI BOONYARATGLIN I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they'... 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DAVID LOWE I believe - and so do most Puerto Ricans - that the ideas that will prevail in the new century will ... ANIBAL ACEVEDO VILA I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm... ICE CUBE I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stag... DAWN FRENCH Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I... RAY BRADBURY I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful... BASSEM YOUSSEF It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... JODI PICOULT Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at whi... RICK PERLSTEIN Humans need fantasy to be human.
Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve ... TERRY PRATCHETT We will see this transfer into political power. If we cannot change their minds, we will change them... ELIAS BERMUDEZ I'm for whatever gets you through the night. FRANK SINATRA There were a bunch of really funny [mascot ideas[, but they would not pass through the Board of Mana... HEIDI FIESELMANN We are not only selling merchandise, but more importantly, through cartoons, we are expressing our i... JANGO PARAMARTHA I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I ... EMMA DONOGHUE When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One... SHELDON WHITEHOUSE It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose ... ALAN ALDA Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to g... , "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS" If you are still afraid of new ideas, know that your fears will come to pass SUNDAY ADELAJA Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with. ALISON JACKSON [Still, such a idea is political dynamite.] The politics are impossible, ... Politicians do this at ... LEONARD BURMAN Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. STEVEN JOHNSON Almost all political debates by politicians are no more than mutual leg pulling. RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometim... JANE AUSTEN I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind ... KATY PERRY I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, ... GEORGES BERNANOS I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures. ANOUSKA HEMPEL When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with ... MARTIN VILLENEUVE The best way way to approach the Bible or other important religious documents is to discuss the imag... BARRY LYNN Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La ... I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy ... MARK KNOPFLER Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur... P. J. O'ROURKE I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interes... ALAIN DUCASSE He accepted new ideas as readily as new trends. Knowing those worth it would last and the lessers wi... HUBERT MARTIN You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the ex... FIDEL CASTRO 'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it'... ERIK GRIFFIN We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us furt... JAMES MCGREEVEY Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation thro... TINA BROWN I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. JOHN CAGE We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political... NOAH FELDMAN There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS
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It is disastrous to confuse them. MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. MADELEINE L'ENGLE It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. MADELEINE L'ENGLE If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. MADELEINE L'ENGLE I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will c... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of ch... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I mean at the moment, Kosovo is practically depopulated of Albanians, and that is not what we think ... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT These two countries are cheek-by-jowl, MADELEINE ALBRIGHT When I took this job I had those instincts surgically removed, ... We believe in bipartisan foreign ... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot ... 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I wanna stop my life and die.
But instead i just close my eyes,
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