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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

We are inventing a new distribution channel.

Doug Edwards

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

He was very, very charismatic. He loved to be with glamorous people and did an awful lot to invent glamour.

Vivienne Westwood

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Ray Dolby

There are no easy rules to get rid of the governor so they are having to invent ways to deal with it.

James Walston

The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Al Gore

One of the dangers is inventing a solution before there is a problem.

Danny Miller

Our strategy going forward was to re-invent our team.

Carol Blazejowski

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Jean Cocteau

That technology is going to give designers the ability to make it look however they want. It's also going to challenge designers to invent and create new forms.

Freeman Thomas

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

Peter Weir

We don't have to invent television, the Internet or telephones. What we hope we can do is improve the experience you have with your television.

John Garcia

Most of the time we follow what the majority of the courts have done, ... We don't invent the wheel every time.

Robin Davis

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Jewish Proverb

We were the first project they funded. All of us have a sense that we're inventing this as we go along, but we're inventing it together, and we're pretty happy because so far it's gone well.

Patrick Heavey

I should thank God or somebody for inventing Michael Clarke Duncan.

Frank Darabont

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

John Mcphee

It's a significant challenge. There really isn't anything else like it. We are inventing something new.

Kathy Jacobs

We [Walker Digital] have hundreds of inventions. All we do is invent business methods -- that's our business.

Jay Walker

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Auguste Rodin

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Katherine Whitehorn

The software also may invent designs that no human designer would ever think of.

Jason Lohn

This is an academic institution, the foundation of which is truth. People get failed at this school for lying, inventing.

Barbara Fairchild

I want to know what happens. Once I invent the characters, I want to know what happens to them.

Beth Anderson

To invent new stuff.

Philip Meyer

I wish they could invent something that could accurately forecast the weather every day - then again, that would put me out of work.

Chris Cimino

I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent.

Dario Fo

As a child, my whole awareness of the world was created by music, which has the potential to be a celebration of imagination where children can make their own connections, and invent their own interpretations.

Morgan Taylor

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

Look, it is our Dallas, our serial, and they are our Kennedys', and we didn't invent any of it. The scenario is beyond belief.

Roger Therond

We're beginning to re-invent the industry.

Nigel Travis

You can only call them as you see them, you don't invent them and he was right with most of them.

Robert Finch

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose.

Henri Poincare

Or invent new wrinkles or characters or whatever to keep them fresh.

John Harvey

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

Howard Barker

We invent what we love, and what we fear.

John Irving

I think they need to invent edible peanut shells.

Gary Martin

We have 300 patents now. We had to invent a lot of stuff to make it work.

Chet Huber

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Pierre Bonnard

If we don't cut taxes, we'll invent emergencies to spend the money on.

John Kasich

We are not re-inventing anything that has already been invented.

Mary Robinson

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

Kerry Packer

We're not going to get tricky. We're not going to invent anything.

Mark Clifford

Dell didn't invent the PC. It came very late to the party and is now the leader and it seems to be following the same pattern in consumer electronics.

Thomas Laming

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Murray Kempton

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

Shannen Doherty

I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that I've always been an extravagant liar.

Don Silver

Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting.

Judy Woodruff

I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers. It was great fun.

Eoin Colfer

I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers.

Eoin Colfer