Idea Quotes

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.

I have some ideas on how to fix that.

I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad

The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.

Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff that people and stuff that people don’t know. I’m very proud with the way it came out.

That’s an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.