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Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

Dizzy Gillespie

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life

Idea

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

Robin Gibb

Idea

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars.

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

David Geffen

Idea

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Bill Gates

Idea

Years

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Truth

Idea

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

I think that it's not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else's, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it's really not that.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.