Idea Quotes

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
Mariska Hargitay

Women, Alone, Nice

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
John Hodgman

Career, Lives, Writer

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
James Earl Jones

Truth, Him, Tell

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
James Earl Jones

Life, Saying, Thinking

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
Baz Luhrmann

Someone, Path, Stay

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith

Respect, Shall, Composer

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
Donna Tartt

Children, Hard, Write

I do love the idea of ritual.
Sarah Silverman

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.
David Axelrod

Today, Both, Sides

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Work, Nature, Story

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach

Against, Talent, Turn

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
Mark E. Smith

Music, Fall, Listening

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
Don Cheadle

Friend, Used, Studio

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
David Guetta

Work, Mean, Together

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.
Emily Procter

Bad, Job, Single

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Rather, Films

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
Camryn Manheim

Peace, Time, Long

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.
Dwayne Johnson

Fun, Big, Making

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
Dwayne Johnson

Success, Movies, Different

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.
Nicole Polizzi

President, Died, Internet

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
Nancy Sinatra

Good, Laugh, Singer

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower

Work, Crazy, Else

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
Lara Flynn Boyle

Marriage, Great

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Alice Hoffman

Time, Woman, Whole

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
Malcolm Turnbull

Money, Important, Else

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
Neil Diamond

Music, Words, Thought

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.
Andy Serkis

Love, Rock, Sex

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.
Paul Farmer

Children, May, Die

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
Bill Condon

Study, Everyone, Unique

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
Bill Condon

Two, Holiday, York

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