Ideas Quotes · Page 232

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

— Lana Del Rey

“It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.”

— Lorii Myers

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

— Yann Tiersen

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

— Bell Hooks

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Anthony Mackie is better at being Sam Wilson than I am. So I embrace his ideas.

— Kari Skogland

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

— Farhan Akhtar

I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the…

— Nina Dobrev

In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell…

— GRiZ

Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not…

— Frederick Lenz

Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to…

— Erma Bombeck

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor…

— Robert Knepper

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that…

— Pablo Picasso

I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of…

— Virginia Hamilton

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had…

— Bruce Dickinson

Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's…

— Meg Whitman

I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an…

— Woody Allen

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Mao challenged the idea that economic planning would dissolve conflicts of interest among the people. He saw it dialectically - conflicts between…

— Harry Magdoff

She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty…

— Betty Neels

When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how…

— James Righton

Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure…

— Peter Greenaway

We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those…

— Elizabeth Warren

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

— David Brooks

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

As a company, we believe in free and open borders. We feel this best facilitates the exchange of cultural values and ideas.

— Gillian Tans

If somebody says my ideas aren't good in the afternoon, I can go to a club that night and try to prove…

— Neal Brennan

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

— Hannes Holm

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like,…

— Harrison Birtwistle

My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

— Keith Morris

“If people copy your ideas or thoughts, don´t stop them. It´s a sign, that you are an influencer.”

— Alin Sav

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

— Marisha Pessl

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

— Anonymous

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get…

— Pat Ament

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,…

— Charles Bukowski

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning…

— Baruch Spinoza

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

— David Eagleman