#idea

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#asking #because #grow #grow up #ideas

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#communicate #disseminate #had #ideas #in the past

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim. ↗

— Jane Powell

#attractive #being #being strong #ditch #idea

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

#binary #book #character #either #emotions

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job. ↗

— Emily Procter

#bad idea #concentrate #i #i can #idea

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#find #i #ideas #old #usually

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#earn #idea #ideas #income #liberal

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#found #generally #i #ideal #me