The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.
