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"True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse."
"I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives"
"True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot"
"True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as."
"In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling."
"I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction."
"Ideas are the very coinage of your brain."
"Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality."
"I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea."
"There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action."
"When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public."
"If I hear an amazing piece of music, I can't help but think of ideas, choreography, and everything that comes along with it."
"It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it"
"The best an idea gets is when its in your head."
"I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film."
"It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die."
"I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even."
"I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas."
"When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work."
"The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them."
