People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.
There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
