I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.
I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was.
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.
We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool.
