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Tommy Smothers Quote: 'The only valid censorship of ideas ...'

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A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.
Lou Gramm
Tags: Me Just Out
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
John Lydon
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Henry Winkler
Tags: You Always Know
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West
Tags: Think Just Very
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
Tags: You Your Will
Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
Abigail Johnson
Tags: You People Know
I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
Cam Newton
Tags: God People Will
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Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.


John C. Crosby
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
Becky G
Tags: Music Really Only
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
Milos Forman
Tags: You People Think
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Censorship is the height of vanity.


Martha Graham
Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
Don Miguel Ruiz
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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.


Evelyn Waugh
Tags: Only Ideas Poetic
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I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.


Nelson Algren
Tags: Think More Than
I only listen to myself, I hate to say. I don't got time to listen to nobody else. There's a lot of guys out there, but I only listen to myself.
Mark Curry
Tags: Time Out Lot
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.


George Bernard Shaw
I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
Robert Smith
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I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.


Joe Mantegna
Tags: Me Believe Mean
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.


Marina Abramovic
Tags: Only Most Ideas
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.


Edith Wharton
Tags: Only Ideas Worth