Idea Quotes · Page 81

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

— Michael Moore

The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.

— Ben Domenech

I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic.

— Lauren Mayberry

To change just because of change, that is not my idea at all.

— Hubert de Givenchy

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

— William Shatner

“Ideas are not Good or Bad. Bad or Good are the ways an idea is handled.”

— Apurva Tamhane

“A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

— P. Chidambaram

I am hostile to the idea that collective solutions have to be made by committees and then imposed top-down. I very much…

— Roger Scruton

My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is 'other' makes it compelling.

— Sarah Paulson

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea…

— Kate Winslet

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea…

— Mary Tyler Moore

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul…

— Emile Durkheim

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the…

— Zadie Smith

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting…

— Dan Hicks

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea.…

— Harold Prince

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's…

— Dana Carvey

After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you…

— Aaron Patzer

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just…

— Rick Perlstein

I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a…

— Dennis Crowley

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when…

— Sam Trammell

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect…

— Sarah Lacy

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to…

— Bunker Roy

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to…

— Myron Scholes

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

— Anton Chekhov

When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.

— Douglas Booth

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

— Anna Godbersen

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

— Libba Bray

My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.

— Claudio Ranieri

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

— E. E. Evans-Pritchard

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.

— Cate Blanchett

If you have a big idea and you go after it, you have to get the right team together.

— Michael G. Rubin

My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.

— Nelsan Ellis

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

— Prodigy

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

— Lily Collins

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

— John Lennon

I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.

— Luke Roberts

I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

— Jack Lowden

People will always have judgments, but they don't actually know me.

— Thomas Grennan