When you fall head over heels for someone, you’re not falling in love with who they are as a person; you’re falling in love with your idea of love.
Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we’re all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we’re perfect. Frankly, I’m not perfect.
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water.
I love that idea that if you know someone’s story, it’s impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I’m concerned.
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
For most of my life I’ve liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that’s running on principles that we don’t even understand.
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down – it keeps us from growing.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
The story of ‘Prometheus’ is the idea that if you’re given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.
I’m not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I’ve no idea how the next five years are going to be.
Not all paintings are abstract; they’re not all Jackson Pollock. There’s value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
I’m fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one’s outlook; it only confirms one’s idea that one is unique.
We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.
And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.
There’s this ridiculous idea that I’m a gender traitor because I’m not a feminist. I’m supposed to be part of a sisterhood: you’re automatically supposed to support all women just because you have the same genitals as them, which doesn’t make sense.
The whole idea of love is scary – so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There’s lots of research to suggest that, actually, love’s not really that simple.
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn’t stand up; I couldn’t recover.
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
I’ve met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too… I have an idea or two.
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in America seemed crazy. So thankfully, the way I was raised was to be an open person.
If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don’t want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.
I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn’t a negative.
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms. It’s about space and material.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school – no way. And I had no idea I’d be coaching girls. It’s wild.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a ‘ready-made’ or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn’t have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.
If I don’t have a model in front of me, I don’t have an idea.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
When I made ‘Real,’ I recorded it over the phone in prison. I did it in a week. I had no idea what it was going to sound like. I couldn’t even listen to the masters before it came out, I couldn’t listen to 90% of the beats. I recorded 21 songs in seven days.
Ideas must be put to the test. That’s why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I’ve had what I thought were great ideas that just didn’t work.
I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they’re talking about because they’ve never been to a country with a bad government.
If I have an idea, I can actualize it through our political leaders.
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry – just making them feel – is paramount to me.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
