Idea Quotes

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea.

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.