Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard..

The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] gov….

Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion t….

our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to w….

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts..

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more ….

I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very c….

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made econ….

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It ….

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and ….

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up..

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said..

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that sud….

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you..

My dad's idea of a good time is to go to Sears and walk around..

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind..

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend..

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to f….

If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to ke….

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ….

The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive a….