Yet the prospect of translating something of not having to churn out anything in the way of original thought appealed to me.
"In our original thought we imagined there would be two choirs, one in Manchester and one in Slovenia, linked together by technology, " Cheetham said.
In the Bagnolet workshop, Van der Straeten shows me his sketches, and the scientific calculations by which they are rendered with astounding faithfulness to the original thought.
More often than not, they have a prepared line to take, and fear thinking out loud for fear of how an original thought might affect those dreaded stakeholders, not least shareholders.
Guys, if you are deep into watching sports, meat and potatoes, and never having to bother yourself with a new or original thought for the rest of your life, don't even think of marrying a career woman.
The only original thought, supported by some in and out of the mohajir movement, would be to take the politics out of business by creating a new provincial capital for Sindh, and to turn Karachi into a free port.
It began when they selected that poisonous toad and criminal Nixon, who was to his credit rather intelligent, and then lowered the bar further when they chose Reagan, a man whose own family affirms that he never had an original thought in his life.
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Eight of Caron's original drawings were thought suitable for their new purpose.
Its critics - fewer today than they were before - will use any longer waiting list, any hospital closure, any problem to claim ministers made things worse - which is ironic since the authors of the original NHS reforms thought they were taking the politics out of the health service.
This, of course, was a part of the original prediction but I thought the roles would be reversed.
If you thought the original Note was big and unwieldy, prepare to stretch your thumb even further up the display.
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The BMW art cars never really get old, because each car is original, organic and well thought out.
Originality, or novelty, gives critics something to write about and for many George Lloyd's work was not thought of as original.
While it is possible that a seizure can signal the regrowth of the original tumor a thought that surely crossed many people's minds some experts caution against leaping to that conclusion.
Lugar and other proponents of the Law of the Sea Treaty (including the Navy, State Department and environmentalists who will also be represented at the Brookings meeting) contend that a 1994 pact called "the Agreement" fixed what President Reagan thought ailed the original accord.
He dropped the idea and his original partners--they "thought I was crazy" anyway, he says.
Rolf spoke to five extremely talented and fortunate students from Year 10 who had produced some really thought-provoking and original pieces of art.
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Around 80% of the ship is original and it has what are thought to be the only surviving in-situ World War I turbines in the world.
We're businesspeople, and we thought that buying the original site of the 1969 Woodstock festival would be an opportunity to perhaps contribute to the economic welfare and development of the area that I grew up in.
Maurizio Vitale, an Italian entrepreneur and original owner of Jesus Jeans, thought of the name during a trip to New York City when he walked by a theater marquee for "Jesus Christ Superstar, " according to Mr. Sindico.
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Memories are not held in their entirety in the brain like old movie clips, but are maintained as a kind of chemical residue of the original perception, which could be thought of as a hash value or remainder, but not a one-way algorithm at all.
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And I thought to Tommy, the original has a saxophone solo on it.
If you thought the size of the original Note was polarizing enough for the average smartphone user, the Note II will reinforce that idea.
In this hypothetical scenario, those 10 years in prison would, practically speaking, have consisted of six months for his original crime (the sentence Ortiz actually thought he deserved) plus a nine-and-a-half-year prison term for exercising his constitutional right to a trial.
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Clearly, when the original plan was developed, nobody would have thought that gas prices would be anywhere from two-fifty to three dollars a gallon.
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As I watched a Martin Scorsese documentary on Dylan last night in my Miami hotel room, I thought again how Dylan created an original sound by marrying two forms: folk to a rock beat.
Because your co-director Alan Mak didn't seem terribly impressed, for a start he thought it was really, really similar to your original, and also he just didn't like the happily-ever-after ending.
But in making the original decision, North Stoke PCT spokesman Adam Whittaker said that officials thought it was not the best use of their limited resources.
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The original decision, first revealed in late July, upset some customers who thought the bank was reneging on an unbreakable promise to them.
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