I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here..

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us ….

There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone ….

I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one'….

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious..

The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vit….

Kissing on screen is just, funny enough you're just acting so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am. I'm actually always com….

Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a….

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself..

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear co….

I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me..

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I….

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even ….

To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two..

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhe….

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the….

People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologi….

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions..

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push..

I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I knew or would meet. I just wrote ….

I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poet….