I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.