In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand..

Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coa….

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its large….

Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or….

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove..

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed..

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new m….

I start a picture and I finish it..

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps..

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him..

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, bu….

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. Th….

Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new o….

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it..

Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware that i….

Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas..

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew..

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas..

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them..

... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies..

I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow..