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I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
The combination of brilliant ideas and entrepreneurial spirit should lead us to a safer and more secure future.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.
Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.
Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.
In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.
Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth
Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.
The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.
At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.
I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.
I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.
The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.
How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.
I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge