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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas Quotes
Where good ideas actually come from, and don't.
Several ideas quotes here take a skeptical angle, doubting that the best thinking flows from any single center of power, while another connects free expression directly to the unlimited spread of ideas online. The Good collection covers a related sense of judgment.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm into hiring smart guys; I'm into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't talk about ideas about reasons and goals and purposes and free will.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, there is a basic recognition of horror as the most open doorway where the intersection of philosophical and religious ideas can come tighter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.
- Nov 07, 2020