“Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.” TryingYearsStillsTwoIdeasPoliticalIndividualPartyPolicyHappeningsCriticismConservativeFollowingGreat ThingsAnalysisThirtyLabourIdenticalOrganisationThirty YearsProgrammesLabour PartyConservative PartyBipartisanship Author:Irvine Welsh
“In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even say appreciate because I would have rather had my father treat me like this rather than as an idiot that would never have any idea about what was happening around us.” KnowsWayIdeasCertainFatherDegreesHappeningsAppreciateTreatsIdiotSincerityPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened before the First World War and it wasn't just the soldiers. You can see it happening if you read the Bloomsbury biographies. It was a reaction to a great extent against Victorianism. There was so much that was repressive and stuffy. Victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. Even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. They were painted hideously.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsMadeIdeasWarHappenedCenturyBuildingHappeningsSoldierUglyReactionsWar Of The WorldsBiographies20th CenturyModernismSuitableVictorianFirst World WarInfatuatedUgly People Author:Jane Jacobs
“I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.” PeopleThinkingWayTwoIdeasMightActionStarsWhiteHappeningsAfrican AmericanAsianAction MovieAsian AmericanSidekicks Author:Roger Ebert
“I love the Olympics. I love the idea of something happening every four years. I've always had love for Bulgaria, and I've always been a Bulgarian. That's also really part of why I want to play it. I know it's tough for the calendar, but at the same time, it's the Olympics.” KnowsWantYearsIdeasPlayFourHappeningsToughFour YearsOlympicsCalendarsBulgariaBulgarians Author:Grigor Dimitrov
“What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.” LooksLongHas BeensMadeIdeasMatterDoneFormCultureStepsGoneTakenHappenedMediaStyleMassLong TimeHappeningsSellsAdvertisingMade ItAdoptedFringeDissentMass Media Author:Mark Hosler
“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.” IfsShouldIdeasFilmArtistTurnsSidesHappenedCrazyIndustryHappeningsShould HaveStudiosGood IdeasMusic IndustryBad Ideas Author:David Lynch
“The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.” PeopleGivingIdeasRealSchoolFilmTroubleTeachingStudentsIndustryHappeningsFilm School Book:Interviews Source: Interviews
“What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.” ThinkingKnowsShouldI CanIdeasCountryMatterGuyNumbersAttitudePositionHappeningsDebtWhat MattersMy AttitudeTsunami Author:Paul Ryan
“I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.” FeelsLooksMayStillsIdeasHappeningsPlanesAeroplanes Author:Martin Scorsese
“Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.” FirstsIdeasSeemsHateFiveCenturyDangerousPromiseHappeningsSpeciesParisThirtyFortyJailPrecedentDetentionCelebsMalibu Author:Rob Sheffield
“You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.” IfsWayLooksIdeasHappensJusticeDoubtHonestFoolHappeningsCommitmentConcernEqualityPietyFarce Author:Bono
“There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantIdeasTodayReadingImaginationLordFantasyEternalNewsHappeningsTestsRingsTouchingImaginativeArchetypeHuman ImaginationTest Of Time Author:Clive Barker