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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.
I love dressing up, and I'm aware that people do say that it can take your attention away from the game. But I disagree with this notion!
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.
I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.
Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking.
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.
The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
Sometimes it feels like people can't wrap their head around the notion that an 'androgynous' trans woman with shorter hair could be beautiful.
There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.
This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.
The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
I am against the notion of style in itself.
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.
I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.
When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.
The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very new notion.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.
Patriotism cannot be instilled inside anybody, it just happens to be there. And it can rise above any notion, any emotion.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.