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I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.
The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.
In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.
... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."
Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.
I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.
If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.
The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.
I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.
The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.
To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.
Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.
I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.
My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.
When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected; it hurts us all.