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Ideas

«All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time»
Author: George Seldes | About: Ideas | Keywords: at one time, controversial, one time
«Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas»
«An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.»
«Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced»
«Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.»
«A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.»
«All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.»
«A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.»
«All great ideas are dangerous.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Ideas | Keywords: dangerous, ideas
«Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development»