We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.
If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.
I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
A canvas is an arena in which to act.
I have a life outside the arenas.
For mankind, universe is a battle arena against universe; there is no room for crying!
People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
I happen to believe, and I think many others do, Donald Trump is probably the great public speaker in those large arenas since William Jennings Bryan.
The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.
Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.
It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.