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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

Ferdinand Christian Baur

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Ethel Barrymore

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.