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"Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods."
"As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle."
"The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example"
"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest."
"Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out."
"When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do."
"Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity."
"Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings."
"My ideas are my whores."
"Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year"
"I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea, it’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end."
"The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing."
"Ideas come from everything"
"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."
"Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness."
"The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that."
"You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve."
"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
"No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist."
"Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all."
