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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself. -- T Bone Burnett
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. -- Stephen Fry
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. -- Jack Kilby
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. -- Eric Hoffer
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. -- Nancy Gibbs
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain. -- Jeremy Thomas
Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own. -- Michael Beck
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country. -- Pete du Pont
Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. -- Tim Conway
Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before. -- Jeaniene Frost
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads. -- Mark E. Smith
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story. -- Damon Lindelof
No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else. -- Dario Argento
It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with. -- Jonathan Dee
It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort. -- Jack Kilby
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money. -- Aaron Patzer
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything. -- Murray Rothbard
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. -- Milton Avery
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less. -- Jane Pauley
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming. -- John Hench
My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that's why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings. -- Mario Testino
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. -- Richard Dawkins
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor. -- Nick Denton
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing. -- Charles Hazlewood
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved. -- Abbas Kiarostami
The idea of the original had no place. -- Sherry Turkle
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size -- Albert Einstein
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything. -- David Ayer
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. -- Raymond E. Feist
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. -- James Thayer
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. -- Mark Twain
If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions. -- Adam Grant
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. -- Todd Solondz
My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it. -- John Lennon
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. -- Thomas Carlyle
No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done -- Nas
I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two. -- Donald Lambert
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. -- Robert K. Merton
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. -- Umberto Eco
I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had. -- Diana Rigg
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original. -- John Lasseter
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles. -- Warren Bennis
But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat. -- Trevor Baylis
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country. -- George Orwell
I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea. -- Daryl Hall
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea? -- Michael Beck
The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better. -- Pharrell Williams
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. -- Carl Hiaasen
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. -- Thomas A. Edison
Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family. -- Linda Chavez
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. -- Scott Cook
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. -- Scott Cook
When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it. -- Susan Blackmore
The original idea [ of the Pineapple Express] came from Judd [Apatow] actually. He just kind of had the loose notion of like, 'What about a weed action movie?'. -- Seth Rogen
I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced. -- Tom Waits
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories. -- Alex Garland
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads. -- Mark E. Smith

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