According to interviews with Norm Prescott, Paramount offered Roddenberry a substantial sum of money to abandon creative control of the project and let Filmation proceed with their " kiddy space cadet " idea.

According to interviews he gave, the fact that some viewers overlooked Alf's views and regarded him as a rough diamond disappointed Speight.

According to documents and interviews with federal officials, investigators and targets of the sanctions, the U. S. government:

According to interviews with cast and crew for an episode of The E!

According to the " Best of the Rest " section of ESPN's Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame program, NBC television footage and press photos prove that no official rules ( Ryder Cup or PGA ) were broken when the Americans celebrated after Leonard's putt ( i. e. no one walked in or crossed Olazábal's putting line – although Europe player Sam Torrance has said in TV interviews that a TV cameraman stood on Olazábal's line while filming the invasion of the green by players and spectators ).

According to director John Frankenheimer and actor James Garner in bonus interviews for the DVD of the film Grand Prix, McQueen was Frankenheimer's first choice for the lead role of American Formula One race car driver Pete Aron.

According to historian Stanley Vestal, who conducted interviews with surviving Hunkpapa in 1930, Sitting Bull was made " Supreme Chief of the whole Sioux Nation " at this time.

According to interviews with Judge in the 1840s, the First Lady had promised the young woman as a wedding gift to her granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis in Virginia and Judge feared she would never gain freedom.

According to the story mentioned in the interviews 11 years after this life-or-death incident, the DEA agent Joe DuBois and FBI agent Daniel Fuentes were riding in a white Ford Bronco with diplomatic plates along the streets of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

According to his analysis of thousands of captured Iraqi secret police documents and declassified U. S. government documents, as well as interviews with scores of Kurdish survivors, senior Iraqi defectors and retired U. S. intelligence officers, it is clear that Iraq carried out the attack on Halabja, and that the United States, fully aware of this, accused Iran, Iraq's enemy in a fierce war, of being partly responsible for the attack.

According to several interviews with Rzeznik, he was experiencing serious bouts of writer's block when he was approached, and was on the verge of quitting the band days before he wrote the song.

According to a book written by Barrett's brother Scott ( A Place in the Sun: The Truth Behind Jay's Journal ), and interviews with the family, Sparks used roughly 25 entries of 212 total from Barrett's actual journal.

According to interviews conducted with then-Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, every story prior to this story remains canon ( this would later be contradicted as the events of later stories imply MJ never fell pregnant ).

According to a tale he was often asked to repeat in interviews, he once killed a lion with a spear while he was working as a cowherd.

According to interviews, the band also kicked their drug habit at this time.

According to a story in Ha ' aretz, based on Arab media and interviews with Israeli and Arab sources, Jaradat carried out the bombing as an act of revenge after Israel Defense Forces undercover operatives in Jenin killed her cousin ( Salah, 34 ) and her younger brother ( Fadi, 25 ).

According to a San Francisco Weekly newspaper account, citing no sources but based largely on interviews with two former political allies of White, he quit the force after reporting another officer for beating a handcuffed black suspect.

According to interviews, Smigel helped punch up the scripts for Little Nicky and the Wedding Singer.

According to three interviews with Sam Sianis, William Sianis ' nephew-in-law, the Curse of the Billy Goat can be dispelled only by the Chicago Cubs organization's showing a sincere fondness for goats ; allowing them into Wrigley Field because they genuinely want to and not simply for publicity reasons.

According to later interviews with Dinger, he plays on side two (" Vom Himmel Hoch "), while Hohmann plays on side one (" Ruckzuck ", " Stratovarius "), which was completed before Dinger joined the sessions.

According to Banno though, from later interviews conducted with him, Godzilla vs. Hedorah 2 was actually still being worked on after he was removed from the project.

According to official website " also in the works is an EPK documenting the reunification and the latest recording sessions along with some rare old footage of interviews, behind the scenes stuff, and live performances ".

According to statements and interviews, drivers have different opinions on the track.

According to interviews with Buck, he has said it was around this time he was given the nickname " Buck ," as he tended to hang out in the locker room " Buck " naked.

According to Tylor, animism often includes " an idea of pervading life and will in nature "; i. e., a belief that natural objects other than humans have souls.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

According to Locke, a general idea is created by abstracting, drawing away, or removing the uncommon characteristic or characteristics from several particular ideas.

According to this view, Hume's empiricism consisted in the idea that it is our knowledge, and not our ability to conceive, that is restricted to what can be experienced.

According to the standard interpretation of Hume on personal identity, he was a Bundle Theorist, who held that the self is nothing but a bundle of experiences (" perceptions ") linked by the relations of causation and resemblance ; or, more accurately, that the empirically warranted idea of the self is just the idea of such a bundle.

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

According to Moore, a moral actor cannot survey the “ goodness ” inherent in the various parts of a situation, assign a value to each of them, and then generate a sum in order to get an idea of its total value.

According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.

According to a modern history of the regiment, the idea for creating this unique force was proposed by Jacques Prevost, a Swiss soldier and adventurer who was a friend of The Duke of Cumberland ( William, who was the King's second son and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

According to Adler, of all the great ideas, the idea of God has always been and continues to be the one that evokes the greatest concern among the widest group of men and women.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Canon of the New Testament: " The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.

According to Jay M. Feinman of the Rutgers University School of Law, " The core idea of negligence is that people should exercise reasonable care when they act by taking account of the potential harm that they might foreseeably cause harm to other people.

" According to him, the loss of higher metaphysical values which existed in contrast with the base reality of the world or merely human ideas give rise to the idea that all human ideas are therefore valueless.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

According to this interpretation, the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics is not a temporary feature which will eventually be replaced by a deterministic theory, but instead must be considered a final renunciation of the classical idea of " causality ".

According to Samuel Colt, he came up with the idea for the revolver while at sea, inspired by the capstan winch, which had a ratchet and pawl mechanism on it, a version of which was used in his guns to rotate the cylinder.

According to Bearden himself, Christ ’ s life, death, and resurrection are the greatest expressions of man ’ s humanism, not because of Christ ’ s actual existence but the idea of him that lived on through other men.

According to Bauckham, the reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin repudiated the idea that Christians are bound to obey the Mosaic law, including the fourth commandment of the Decalogue concerning Sabbath, although they followed Aquinas's concept of natural law.

According to Steinhaus, while he was strolling through the gardens he was surprised to over hear the term " Lebesgue measure " ( Lebesgue integration was at the time still a fairly new idea in mathematics ) and walked over to investigate.

According to Joel, he " came up with the idea of just laying free-form neon stars on top of it and doing a similar free-form star thing on the interior ".