The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
