I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman who gives a no really means yes is very messy. And part of the messiness is some students - and yes, usually these are liberal students - over-determining the definition of assault.
I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.
Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or that one etc, and instead, as a human being. Maybe we can stop forcing our ideas like, "I don't want them to marry this person because they are of this religion or this color" on them.
I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.
If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.
Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.
It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound. ' But I was obsessed with the idea of taking a sound and completely phenomenologically thrashing it. "
I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it' - and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy and innovating in front of the world. And we have to actually reconcile those two positions. And we believe that it is much better to protect this crown jewel of civilization, which is the ability for us to communicate and express our ideas freely, than to try to lobotomize it.
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.
If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.
He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.
It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.