When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas. – Ted Olson
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent. – Tucker Carlson
I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out. – Thomas Newman
I just don’t see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It’s more trying to express ideas and emotional textures. – Sturgill Simpson
I think it’s important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests. – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
For me, there is a basic recognition of horror as the most open doorway where the intersection of philosophical and religious ideas can come tighter. – Scott Derrickson
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas. – Zakk Wylde
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. – Virginia Henley
What’s beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it’s in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they’re affected by it. – Victor LaValle
I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form. – Scott McCloud
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify. – Tom Paulin
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. – Vachel Lindsay
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean. – Taj Mahal
I think he’s much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I’ve done. Because it’s a little bit more layered. He’s constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they’re really simple. – Sean William Scott
I just wanted to have fun for myself – I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions. – Tina Brown
I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It’s still an overriding impulse. And I’m self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills. – Sarah Hall
Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don’t need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new. – Thom Browne
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He’d be a good film professor. – Sofia Coppola
I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies – particularly ‘Gladiator,’ ‘New Jack City’ and ‘The Skin I Live In’ – I’ll also get ideas. – Theophilus London
The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas. – Whit Stillman
Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don’t even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto. – Tristram Stuart
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there – from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security – are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in. – Trent Lott
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. – Spike Jonze
I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback. – Steve Jobs
I’m not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I’m always interested in it as a way of getting at larger ideas or important meaning. And you don’t see that as much as you’d think in the history of horror cinema. A lot of times, it’s scariness for scariness’ own sake. – Scott Derrickson
Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible. – Sheena Iyengar
I guess that’s just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise. – Stephanie Kwolek
I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn’t think I could be a director. I just literally didn’t think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women. – Sarah Gavron
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless. – Tim Walker
