Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas th….

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me..

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it..

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins..

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together..

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it..

A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't….

Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea tha….

For me it is a matter of respect for the ideas in the work and the people who look at them. I absolutely hate it when works come back to the studio f….

Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result..

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards..

And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind o….

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas..

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to s….

The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high d….

My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist move….

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents..

Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, th….

My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertariani….

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and ….