Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
~By Gary Oldman ~
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
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.
~By Barry Gibb ~
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
~By Beck ~
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
~By Mark V. Hurd ~
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
~By John Thune ~
I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
~By Anita Hill ~
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
~By Lars von Trier ~
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
~By Hermione Gingold ~
I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.
~By Harry Hamlin ~
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
~By Walter Lang ~
For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.
~By Lee Harvey Oswald ~
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
~By Paul Farmer ~
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
~By Ted Nugent ~
If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
~By Rio Ferdinand ~
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
~By Paul Valery ~
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
~By Vachel Lindsay ~
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
~By Zach Braff ~
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
~By Francis Wright ~
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
~By David Riesman ~
My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.
~By Andre Braugher ~
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.
~By Donald Johanson ~
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
~By Edward Steichen ~
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
~By Orson Welles ~
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
~By Arthur Cayley ~
Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!
~By Paul Darrow ~
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.
~By Henry Morton Stanley ~
Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
~By Roger Ebert ~
Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
~By Vanilla Ice ~
I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
~By Robert Musil ~
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
~By Giuseppe Mazzini ~
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
~By Alex Winter ~
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
~By Donald Judd ~
Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
~By Howard Stringer ~
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
~By Ovid ~
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
~By John Conyers ~
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
~By Marc Almond ~
The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
~By Harold Ford ~
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
~By Victoria Secunda ~
Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
~By Josiah Royce ~
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
~By Steven Pinker ~
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
~By William Hull ~
Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
~By Alain Prost ~
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
~By Garrett Morris ~
I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.
~By Cher ~
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
~By Thom Mayne ~
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
~By Ferdinand Christian Baur ~
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