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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

I deserve to have boundaries, and my boundaries are respected. I love and honor myself. I am safe. All is well.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I did not have to believe. I only had to wonder.

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children do when you send them out to play? Is it a matter of consequence to you whether they play tag, or hide and seek, or pretend? No, it is not, because you know they are perfectly safe. You have placed them in an environment which you consider friendly and very okay.

I do not judge the universe.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.

I do not seek. I find.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.