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Some people might have different ideas about what progress looks like, and some are cynical and place their short-term political interests ahead of what is good for our country. But many of them aren't cynical and try hard to do their best.
Valerie Jarrett
Best
Good
People
Progress
Political
Try
Some People
Country
Cynical
Our
Some
About
Like
Ideas
Looks
Different
Place
Short-Term
Them
Different Ideas
Might
Interests
Hard
Many
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
Vanessa Bayer
Jokes
Stage
Group
Every
Table
More
Through
Writers
Ideas
Piece
Around
Goes
Pitches
Rewrite
Where
Sketch
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge
Progress
Will
Become
Radical
Faster
Symptom
Toward
Ideas
Most
Another
Spread
Singularity
Quickly
Commonplace
Themselves
Should
Even
Ever
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
Vernor Vinge
Time
Science
Writing
Took
Months
Easy
Find
Seemed
Seems
More
Lead
Like
Ideas
Science Fiction
Cultural
Began
Very
Decades
Middle
Eighteen
Fiction
Now
Consciousness
What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.
Victor LaValle
Beautiful
Every
Way
About
Atomic
Dropped
Ideas
Course
Dealing
How
Affected
Godzilla
Being
Aftermath
Japan
Them
Bombs
Symbol
People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.
Vinod Khosla
People
Over
New
Ideas
Terms
New Ideas
Die
Basically
The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.
Virgil Abloh
Random
Insane
Lead
Ideas
Conversations
Amount
Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.
Virgil Abloh
Mind
Every
Out
Outlets
Put
Idea
Ideas
Look
Execute
'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.
Virgil Abloh
Me
Director
Creative
Giving
Phrase
More
Counselor
Like
Ideas
Obviously
Than
Being
Means
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.
Virginia Postrel
Competition
Hurts
Imagination
Innovative
Complex
Posterity
Only
Individual
Exchange
New
Ideas
Messy
Audience
New Ideas
Legacy
Often
Dependent
Process
Which
Create
Creators
Fragile
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
Vivienne Westwood
World
Possible
Unpopular
Only
Through
Ideas
Effect
At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Vivienne Westwood
Time
Fashion
Angry
You
Feeling
Down
Kicking
Kind
One Time
Crusade
Like
Ideas
Know
Were
Very
Door
Either
Against
Us
Even
Now
Treated
Need
If we go the direction that many of the leaders of this country want and close the borders and discourage new immigrants, then we are ruining the possibility of new ideas and new experiences.
W. Kamau Bell
Country
Ruining
Possibility
Immigrants
Borders
Direction
Leaders
New
Ideas
New Ideas
Discourage
Go
Close
Want
Experiences
Then
Many
Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.
W. Kamau Bell
People
Amazing
Big
World-Class
City
Ideas
Amazing People
Chicago
Big Ideas
Filled
That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
Walker Stapleton
Good
You
People
Good Ideas
Willing
Put
Come
Ideas
Where
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens
Love
You
Words
Must
Poetry
Ideas
Anything
Rhythms
To Love
Capacity
Your
Images
Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
Walt Mossberg
Good
Day
Nature
Will
Think
One Day
Independent
Consumer
New
Ideas
Know
New Ideas
Ultimately
End
Very
Just
Companies
Even
Platform
Tech
What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
Walter Becker
You
People
Trouble
Build
Add
Musical
Musical Ideas
Something
Records
Layers
Like
Ideas
Mess
Without
Sound
Still
Up
Gets
Going
Substantial
Want
Now
Foundation
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin
Art
Fashion
Criticism
Nutshell
Critic
Slogans
Betraying
Ideas
Without
Inadequate
Coin
I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
Walter Gropius
Spiritual
Judge
Brothers
Feel
Over
Ideas
Make
Himself
German
Very
Who
Origin
Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
Walter Jon Williams
Problem
Down
Has-Been
Some
Stepped
Ideas
Because
Territory
Were
Been
Movies
Shot
Reserved
The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.
Walter Kirn
Life
Truth
Bible
People
Interpretation
Biology
Has-Been
About
Absolute
Point
Through
Absolute Truth
Taken
Ideas
Until
Been
Expect
Quite
Where
Inform
Planet
Rounds
Millions
Recently
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
Wangari Maathai
Nurture
Important
New
Ideas
Make
Make A Difference
New Ideas
Any
Africa
Difference
Which
Initiatives
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector
Wife
Nothing
Back
Some
Various
Ideas
Comic
Came
Ever
Publishers
Spector
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
Washed Out
Music
You
Different Kinds
Kinds
Feel
Name
Like
Ideas
Practically
Lot
Listen
Different
Anything
Pull
Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
Washed Out
Great
You
Giving
Record
Road
Ideas
Anything
Really
Hard
Travelling
Actually
Tons
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