The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
‐‐ Eric Fellner
The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.
‐‐ Guy Verhofstadt
The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.
‐‐ James Toback
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
‐‐ Brian Greene
The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.
‐‐ Susan Minot
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
‐‐ Julian Baggini
The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
‐‐ Bono
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.
‐‐ Chris Gibson
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy
The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.
‐‐ Alex Steffen
The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
‐‐ Campbell Newman
The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.
‐‐ Peter Singer
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
‐‐ Gever Tulley
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
‐‐ Andrew McCarthy
The idea that we have the capacity to change or stop the climate, I'm just skeptical.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
‐‐ Lyle Lovett
The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.
‐‐ Howard Dean
The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
‐‐ Dave Matthews
The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.
‐‐ Molly Antopol
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf
The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each other, that's a big miss. That is not true at all. At all. My women connect with each other instantly and help each other.
‐‐ Patricia Riggen
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.
‐‐ Jill Abramson
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman
The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
‐‐ Billy Beane
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
‐‐ Michelle Williams
The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
‐‐ F. Murray Abraham
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson
The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.
‐‐ Vint Cerf
The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.
‐‐ Jane Goldman
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
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.
‐‐ Bill Gates
The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman
The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
‐‐ Ulrich Beck
The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.
‐‐ Dolly Wells
The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.
‐‐ Jennifer Doudna
The idea that you would not only exercise but that you would enjoy it is very difficult for me to understand. I just hate it.
‐‐ Jimmy Kimmel
The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold
The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice
The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
‐‐ Adora Svitak
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
‐‐ Gary Wright
The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,'' you know what I mean?
‐‐ Noah Hawley
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
‐‐ Vint Cerf