A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.
I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies.
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.
I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.
Never presume negative about someone promptly, You have no idea about the situation of them.
You have to understand, having a good time is not my idea of having a good time.
