And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints..

If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most peop….

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the n….

That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I re….

Ideas do not need weapons..

Everything kind of was leading towards that and I had so many specific ideas always about how exactly I wanted something to look. I would customize s….

I was put here to sing..

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes incre….

I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by s….

New ideas must use old buildings.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most tr….

They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They….

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reali….

I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting o….

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was n….

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image ….

My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) ….

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where t….

Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate ….

What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if w….

The more the change, the more it is the same thing..