Idea Quotes

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
Jhonen Vasquez

Stories, Slave, Johnny

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'
Demi Moore

Children, Someone, Said

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
Carson Kressley

Time, Strength, Important

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
David Fincher

Good, Movies, Stupid

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
Christian Lacroix

Same, Everybody, Tea

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
Christian Lacroix

Name, Perhaps, Influenced

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
Frank Ocean

Cool, Using, Strengths

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
Rachel Maddow

God, Honest, Voice

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Robert Smithson

End, Find, Language

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Business, Laugh, Together

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Amazing, Famous, Simple

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel

God, Respect, Absurd

I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.
Bob Seger

Real, Fast, Recording

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
Tim Berners-Lee

Important, Hold, Piece

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
Marguerite Duras

Women, Quite, Neglect

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
Robert Rodriguez

Love, Art, Technology

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.
Robert Rodriguez

Bored, Enjoy, Pretty

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.
Robert Rodriguez

Family, Someone, Find

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.
Minoru Yamasaki

Change, Why, Painting

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
Warwick Davis

Love, True, Acting

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.
Graham Coxon

Cool, Live, Shows

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
Mike Mills

Love, Work, Family

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.
James McGreevey

Life, Death, School

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
Monica Bellucci

Live, Reality, America

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
Jasper Johns

Find, Working, Else

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Phyllis McGinley

Marriage, Woman, Acceptance

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Niklaus Wirth

Work, Beautiful, Successful

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.
Jo Nesbo

Good, Great, Children

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
Jo Nesbo

Work, Time, Best

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
Jo Nesbo

Good, Best, Down

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