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"The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless."
"History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space."
"The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous"
"How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?"
"I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them."
"... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way."
"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
"Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground."
"One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures."
"The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed."
"Love of an idea is the love of God."
"The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas."
"I generally enjoy the rehearsal process because that's where you can share your ideas, get your thoughts and feelings out and see whether or not they're going to land, whether or not people are going to agree with them, particularly the director. So you can sort out in that process any elements that need to be sorted out before you're on the set, and of course that saves time and it also makes everyone more comfortable working together."
"If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . ."
"What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?"
"The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment."
"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
"Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible."
"To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions"
