#idea

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience. ↗

— Katie Couric

#comfortable #day #each #every #every day

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they? ↗

— Alan Cumming

#always #arkansas #boy #cannot #earth

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas. ↗

— Jim DeMint

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It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

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I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

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