Adam Sandler Quotes, Brother Quotes, Ideas Quotes

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

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Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

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You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come into it.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

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What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

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...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

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Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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